Jithu Vel
Quant Trader at Freedx Trading arm (Hejflow)
Financial Engineering at WorldQuant University (WQU)
United Arab Emirates
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Quant Trader at Freedx Trading arm (Hejflow)
Running book using Market-making, HFT, and Delta Neutral Arb strategies. Building Factor timing strategies for MFT. Market Structural identification for HFT and MFT strats.
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Freedx Trading arm (Hejflow)
Quant Trader
February 2025 - Present
Designed Market-Making strategy and Built Trading Lines across 3 major CEX (Binance, OKX, Bybit)
Deployed Data Adapter, order management system and re-balancing service
Designed Risk Engine, Monitoring Dashboard and Database schema
Designed Delta Neutral Yield strategies on SOL ecosystem (AUM $1.3M)
Negotiated and achieved best fee tier across exchanges
Digital Capital Advisory Services
Sr Quantitative Analyst
June 2024 - January 2025
Regime switching Factor implementation for Market-Making, Parameter configuration and Optimization.
Factor Research and building an alpha-informed Market-making strategy
Managing a team of three devs, building, optimizing, and validating development progress.
Market-Making - Sharpe 3+
Expanding implementation of Market-Making to DEX exchanges
Built Cross-Exchange Arb strategy
LCX (Regulated Swiss Crypto Exchange)
Head of Market Making
December 2021 - May 2024
Daily Exchange Volume $3-7M
Built Market-Making strategy, Infrastructure and Exclusive token listing
Managing a team of devs, traders, external market makers and Liquidity Providers
Hedge using OTC and cross-exchange
Analyze historical data and implement improvements to enhance the efficiency of trading systems
Sourcing and structuring Deals for New token Listing
Monitoring order book Depth, Spread and minimum criteria maintenance
Following up with projects, alerting, warning and delisting if non-compliant
BV Trading and Investment Firm
Quantitative Trader
April 2018 - August 2021
Running strategies using mathematical indicators, Interest rate Arb Strategies, Synthetic Arb
Oversee real-time trading systems and adjust trading parameters to maximize profitability
Post Trade Analysis for Optimization
Factors, News, Macro and sentiment-based discretionary trading
Participated in several ICOs and part of a boutique VC fund
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Financial Engineering
WorldQuant University (WQU)
Graduated in 2025
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