Ariel Silahian
Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO) at VisualHFT
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAriel Silahian is a Chief Technology & Product Officer and builder of institutional-grade trading platforms with 20+ years operating the microsecond-to-execution pipeline across buy-side and sell-side Tier-1 firms. He combines hands-on C++/.NET low-latency engineering with product strategy to turn market-microstructure insights into measurable P&L advantages, prioritizing execution quality, architectural resilience, and zero-failover operations. Founder of VisualHFT and author of "C++ High Performance for Financial Systems," he also advises firms through HFT Advisory, translating complex quant research into production-ready, regulated systems. Ariel has repeatedly modernized legacy stacks into cloud-hybrid, high-throughput architectures and engineered OMS/RMS integrations that materially improve execution and risk workflows. Based in New York, he publishes technical deep-dives on order-book reconstruction and adverse selection, demonstrating a rare blend of practitioner-level benchmarking and strategic governance. One less obvious strength: he frames engineering choices in explicit business terms, preventing “decision debt” before it compounds into operational and regulatory risk.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science - Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science - Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de BelgranoElectronics & Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics and Communications, Electronics & Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics and Communications at Instituto Luis A. Huergo
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (32)
trading-algorithms10
trading10
mvvm10
desktop-application10
analytics10
mvvm-architecture10
tca10
wpf10
csharp10
hft6
algorithmic-trading6
finance6
recurrent-neural-networks6
discriminator6
multithreading6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
visualHFT/VisualHFT
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Open-source desktop application for real-time market microstructure analysis. Explore live Level 2 order books, trades, liquidity, and built-in studies.
Contributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 36 PRs in 22 days
desktop-applicationanalyticsmarket-analyticsmarket-datatca
silahian/notion
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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