2025 - 02¶
Plan¶
- Strategy Monitoring: Finalize metrics, dashboards, and alerts; validate data and risk thresholds.
- Trading Strategies: Deploy arbitrage and market-making strategies with integrated balance risk management.
- ML Infrastructure: Enhance model versioning and prediction monitoring while enabling collaborative development.
- Team Development: Mentor new members and delegate tasks to streamline operations.
- Recruitment: Source candidates for quantitative researcher and trading engineer roles.
Progress¶
Team Development¶
Gaddafi has shown significant progress in several areas:
Strengths:
- Strong learning drive and adaptability
- Quick execution of assigned tasks
- Consistent improvement in code quality
- Proactive communication and engagement
- Reliable meeting attendance and timely updates
Areas for Improvement:
- Deeper understanding of system architecture needed
- More initiative in technical design decisions
- Enhanced testing coverage in code submissions
- Further development of IDE usage & debugging skills
Action Items:
- Assign increasingly complex tasks to challenge growth
- Schedule regular architecture review sessions
- Continue rigorous code review process
- Provide more opportunities for system design input
Recruitment¶
The recruitment process has yielded valuable insights:
Candidate Profiles:
- Source 200+ potential candidates
- 74 advanced to technical assessment stage
- 10 promising candidate invited to video interviews
Key Learnings:
- Technical expertise must be balanced with cultural fit
- Practical assessments more valuable than theoretical knowledge
- Communication skills crucial for remote collaboration
- Learning capacity often outweighs initial experience
- Avoid mimicking big tech or high-profile startups in recruitment
Next Steps:
- Refine technical assessment process
- Expand recruitment channels
- Implement structured onboarding program
- Establish clear performance metrics
Operation¶
Banking & Compliance:
- Closed BOC HK Account successfully
- Passed Hong Kong Company Audit with no issues
Consider retain or close HK company
- Decision: Maintain Hong Kong presence
- Rationale:
- Strategic value for Asian market access
- Established banking relationships
- Regulatory compliance track record
- Potential future expansion opportunities