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Adolfo Villalobos

Software Engineer | Quant & Data Engineering
Santiago, Chile
linkedin.com/in/adolfovillalobos
adolfo.villalobos.vega@gmail.com
+56 (9) 6247 5153
Innovative and results-driven Software Engineer with a strong foundation in quantitative trading, machine learning, and high-frequency trading systems. Proven ability to develop low-latency trading algorithms, optimize real-time data pipelines, and apply advanced mathematical models to financial markets. Experienced in Python, Rust and Go, with hands-on expertise in algorithmic trading, convex optimization, and distributed systems. Adept at building scalable solutions for competitive financial markets and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the evolution of proprietary trading strategies.

Work Experience

Quantitative Software Engineer

Orionx (Crypto Exchange)

Mar 2021 - Current
  • Architected a Crypto FX arbitrage and liquidity engine from scratch, achieving 30–45% market share and 4x capital growth over three years.
  • Designed real-time capital allocation across venues using convex optimization, increasing utilization from 40% to 95%.
  • Built dynamic pricing and spread estimation using online learning algorithms, reducing slippage by 50% across volatile FX pairs.
  • Engineered cross-venue route optimization using graph algorithms, generating $100K/month additional volume at 67% win rate.
  • Refactored latency-critical paths (market data, order execution) to gRPC with Go microservices, reducing end-to-end latency by over 60%.
  • Deployed core execution engine in Python on Kubernetes with optimized message queues, scaling throughput 4x over three years.
  • Built institutional-grade trading dashboard with real-time metrics, automated rebalancing, and point-in-time analysis, reducing accounting overhead by 70%.
  • Engineered 100+ ETL pipelines in Airflow and PySpark for real-time market data across 30+ instruments, reducing processing time by 80%.
  • Shipped production APIs in FastAPI with full type safety, CI/CD, and automated testing, enabling 3x increase in daily trade volume.
  • Scaled engine to 3 additional markets and OTC liquidity provision through actor-model design patterns, doubling venue coverage.

Data Scientist

Mar 2018 - Jun 2020
  • Built a random forest ensemble predicting worker risk from inertial sensor data (98% accuracy);
  • Developed regression models forecasting agricultural yields, reducing prediction error from 20% to 2%.
  • Designed A/B experiments achieving 30% risk reduction and 8% operational time savings.

Chilean Central Bank

Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
  • Statistical analysis on Chilean household debt, identifying top three factors in debt underreporting.

Education

M. Sc. in Engineering (Data Science)

Pontificia Universidad Católica (Santiago, Chile)

2019 - 2021

Ingeniero Civil de Industrias, Diploma en Ingeniería Matemática