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. 24 strategy adapters in parallel (15 equity, 9 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. 112 tools across 33 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. Source is now public under Apache 2.0: frontend and backend.

Project Saoirse — NSS Grand Prize, 2026

I led the team that designed Project Saoirse, a 50-page proposal for a 10,000-resident orbital settlement at Mars-Sun L2. It won the Grand Prize at the NSS Gerard K. O'Neill Space Settlement Contest in 2026.

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.

Open source

Five merged PRs in nautilus_trader (24.4k stars). The headline is #4251: benchmark-relative portfolio statistics (beta, Jensen's alpha, Information Ratio, tracking error, Treynor) in the Rust core. The maintainer and I agreed the design in an RFC before I wrote it. #4354 followed up with Up/Down Capture ratios on the same infrastructure. Plus three more: #4099 (silent data-loss bug in the IBKR historical client; maintainer ported the fix to the Rust core in #4114), #4141 (intraday returns in downsample_to_daily_bins — geometric compounding instead of arithmetic sum), and #4174 (missing PortfolioStatistic trait methods). Also two open PRs in ib_async (1.7k stars) — #214 (NewsTick contract propagation, cherry-picked to next) and #218 (logger handler scoping).

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@mail.utoronto.ca. I usually reply within a few days.

mahimn · about · rev apr 2026