Illia Antypenko

Developing Solana atomic arbitrage strategy from scratch, maintaining positions in top-10 by PnL.

• Built shred reception & decoding infrastructure;
• Optimized program CU usage (8x lower);
• Developed on-chain competition analytics;
• Integrating new DEX/prop AMM protocols;
• Improving monolith latency (<1ms inside application);
• Improving transaction landing performance.

Owning prop trading strategies lifecycle — research, backtesting, deployment, and ~$5M capital allocation across trading strategies.

• Designed solver for NEAR intents;
• Facilitating knowledge sharing between trading teams.

Built and led the technical organization of ~35 engineers (hiring, architecture, security, infrastructure) across consumer product, market-making, prop trading, and DevOps teams.

• Hired & led tech lead transition;
• Hired & led an in-house DevOps team from scratch, migrated from an outstaff team;
• Built tech/quant talent-acquisition & hiring pipelines.

Scaled the DEX/CEX arbitrage engineering team from 3 to 15 engineers; drove trading performance analytics, increasing APY to 500% in 2024.

Built and optimized the core DEX/CEX arbitrage system, integrated blockchains (Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Base, Solana) and centralized exchanges (Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC, Bitget).