About me / links
I’m Saksham Sharma, a Computer-Scientist turned Quant, and Director of Quantitative Research Technology at Tower Research Capital LLC, based out of New York. I lead our efforts on improving Machine Learning system performance for financial trading, while designing extremely low-latency trading systems and developing complex algorithmic trading strategies for global financial instruments that trade hundreds of millions of USD daily. Through my work, I help design, run, and scale Tower’s quantitative trading strategies competitively across all the world’s major financial exchanges, across all asset classes - improving market price-discovery and efficiency.
In addition to my work at Tower, I contribute to technical committees supporting the software required for high-performance financial systems.
- I co-chair the Tooling Track at CppCon, the largest C++ conference in the world.
- I am a member of WG21, The ISO C++ committee which helps standardize and improve the C++ programming language, and am a regular speaker at various major programming language conferences.
- I am also a member of the Boost organization, and am a contributor to the Beman Project and its infrastructure.
I am involved in the C++ language community in various different capacities, am a regular at the New York C++ meetup.
Public Coverage
- Post about me by Tower Research Capital LLC
- Coverage for my talk at PyCon 2024, Pittsburgh
- I was awarded the President’s Gold Medal by the President of India in 2018.
Tech talks
C++Now 2026 - Aspen, CO - After Reflection - Building C++’s Missing DSL-Stack
Link to talk page Video not yet available
CppCon 2024 - Aurora, CO - Reflection based libraries to look forward to
CppCon is the world’s largest C++ language conference.
Link to talk page
PyCon 2024 - Pittsburgh, PA - A low latency deepdive of Python with Cython
PyCon US is the world’s largest Python language conference.
Link to talk page
CppNorth 2024 - Toronto, Canada - Writing fast code like a native
CppNorth - The Canadian C++ Conference
Link to talk page - My personal favorite talk among all these.
CppCon 2023 - Aurora, CO - Writing Python Bindings for C++ Libraries
CppCon is the world’s largest C++ language conference.
Link to talk page
C++Now 2024 - Aspen, CO - Reflection in C++ and libraries
CppNow is an intimate conference hosted annually for C++ language experts.
Link to talk page
C++Now 2023 - Aspen, CO - Writing python bindings for C++ libraries
CppNow is an intimate conference hosted annually for C++ language experts.
Link to talk page