About

Hi, I'm Ridham.

CS undergraduate at Arizona State University, GPA 3.89, Dean's List, graduating May 2026. I spend most of my time building low-latency systems and quantitative research tools, with the goal of landing a Quant Developer or Quant Researcher role at a top trading firm in Summer 2027.

I care more about understanding things deeply than moving fast. Whether it is deriving why the Avellaneda-Stoikov reservation price takes the form it does, or tracing exactly how a Vyukov MPSC queue avoids false sharing, I would rather understand one thing completely than skim ten things at the surface.

What I Build

Systems

Low-latency C++ infrastructure

Lock-free data structures, cache-line aligned memory layouts, sub-microsecond matching engines.

Quant

Quantitative research tools

Stat arb backtesting, Kalman filter hedge ratios, OU-MLE estimation, Monte Carlo risk engines.

ML

Reinforcement learning agents

PPO market-making agents, Avellaneda-Stoikov reward functions, microstructure feature engineering.

Currently

  • Working through John C. Hull's Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives chapter by chapter
  • Drilling probability and stochastic calculus problems from the Green Book (A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews)
  • Preparing for Quant Developer and Quant Researcher recruiting cycles for Summer 2027
  • Research Assistant at ASU Biodesign, building Rust-Python simulation tooling with Maturin and Django

Where I Want to Be

Citadel, Jane Street, Optiver, Two Sigma, D.E. Shaw. I am targeting the Summer 2027 internship cycle as a Quant Developer or Quant Researcher. The goal is not just to pass a technical screen but to be genuinely prepared: strong enough on the math, sharp enough on the systems, and deeply curious about how markets actually work.

Outside of Code

Soccer

Football is my reset button. Playing pickup or watching Champions League, I love the spatial decision-making and the fact that a single moment can flip everything.

Photography

Street and travel photography, mostly candid moments and light studies. It taught me to slow down and notice what I would otherwise walk past.

Reading

Currently: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman and The One Thing by Gary Keller alongside Hull and the Green Book on the technical side.

Guitar

Learning guitar. There is something useful about being a complete beginner again. It keeps you patient with the slow compounding of small, consistent effort.

Get in Touch

Always happy to talk quant finance, systems programming, or anything in between. Reach me at ridham412work@gmail.com or find me on GitHub.