About

Trading

The main thing I work on is trading-algo — a multi-strategy quant system that runs through Interactive Brokers for US stocks and through Binance, Kraken, and Hyperliquid for crypto. 25 strategy adapters in parallel (15 equity, 10 crypto), an LLM-agent decision layer on top, and a deterministic risk controller that decides which proposed orders actually transmit. It's been on live capital since 2024. Equity Sharpe 0.48 with a Deflated Sharpe p < 0.001 over a 10-year walk-forward. Day-to-day, Claude Code drives it.

There's an Indian-market sibling, kite-algo, on Zerodha Kite Connect — 68-command CLI, SEBI-compliant audit, 731 tests passing. Same shape, totally different broker quirks (daily token rotation, no Flex equivalent, no native greeks, 3 req/s rate limits on most endpoints). Strategy layer doesn't live in the repo; the agent calls the CLI.

For research context, both of them lean on worldmonitor-mcp, a TypeScript MCP server I shipped that wraps koala73's worldmonitor dashboard and bolts direct-API handlers onto the data providers I needed at higher fidelity than the dashboard proxies. 140 tools across 32 OSINT services — FRED, SEC EDGAR, GDELT, ACLED, AIS vessel tracking, congressional trades, Polymarket, military flight tracking, the rest.

Shipped, archived

Before the trading stuff I built Quirio (codename Liora) — an AI assistant for Texas residential real-estate agents, doing listing discovery, CMAs, client tracking, and document drafting against the live MLS feed. Ran in production from 2023 to April 2026. The product worked and the agents who used it kept using it, but I couldn't crack outbound distribution against the entrenched MLS-and-CRM vendor stack, and trading-algo started eating all my time. I wound it down deliberately. Repo's going public after a secrets/PII scrub.

Project Saoirse — NSS Grand Prize, 2026

I led the 11-person team that designed Project Saoirse — a 50-page proposal for a 10,000-resident orbital settlement at Mars-Sun L2 — that won the Grand Prize at the NSS Gerard K. O'Neill Space Settlement Contest in 2026. 1st place out of ~29,000 entries from 31 countries.

I wrote the Politics, Philosophy & Economics chapter: an exergy-denominated currency (Sciubba's Extended Exergy Accounting), a FERC-745-style conservation market, and a tripartite executive — elected representative, appointed expert, sortition citizen — with time-horizon-weighted voting. Full report on nss.org.

Talks

Presented Saoirse at the Saturday Gala Dinner of ISDC 2026 in Washington DC, in front of ~300 aerospace scientists. Standing ovation.

Open source

Two PRs I'm proud of, both in production quant infra. nautilus_trader #4099 (merged, 22.8k stars) — a silent data-loss bug in the IBKR historical client where request_instruments was returning the provider's entire cumulative cache, leaking every prior call's results. The maintainer subsequently ported the fix to the Rust core in #4114. ib_async #214 (cherry-picked to next, 1.5k stars) — missing contract propagation in the streaming-news event handler, so NewsTick events were getting dispatched without their contract field populated.

Press

Interviewed on CBC Radio One's Here and Now Toronto in April 2026 about Saoirse. "High school students win national space contest" — 10 minutes, with my teammate Rehan Jafar.

Mock trial

• OJEN Best Advocate, Grade 11 (2024) and Grade 12 (2025).
• OJEN Provincial — team 1st (2025), team 3rd (2024).

Essay

Why I shelved the LLM trader. Notes on removing the Gemini trader from trading-algo's production loop after reading the recent literature on LLMs and market alpha.

Contact

mahimn.patel.k@gmail.com. Reply within a few days.

mahimn · about · rev apr 2026