summary: Amir Bandeali is the Chief technology officer and Co-founder at 0x, a decentralized exchange for trading ERC20 tokens.
content: Amir Bandeali is the Chief technology officer and Co-founder at 0x, a decentralized exchange for trading ERC20 tokens. He has a large amount of experience at the intersection of trading and technology. Education He attended a local high school in the United States where he completed his high school education. He then joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2009 and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of science in General Finance. Career After graduation he worked as a trader at Chopper Trading from March 2014 to January 2015. Chopper trading is a technology based proprietary trading firm.Then in January 2015, he worked as a trader at DRW. DRW is a diversified trading firm that combines technology, research, and risk management to capture trading and investment opportunities. DRW is located at Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US.He is currently the Chief technology officer and Co-founder at 0x, a free, open-source infrastructure that developers and businesses utilize to build products that enable the purchasing and trading of crypto tokens. 0x Offers Robust Smart Contracts ; 0x Protocol's smart contracts have been put through two rounds of rigorous security audits. Extensible Architecture ; 0x's modular pipeline enables you to plug in your own smart contracts through an extensible API. Efficient Design ; 0x’s off-chain order relay with on-chain settlement is a gas efficient approach to p2p exchange, reducing blockchain bloat. Other members at 0x includes Will Warren, Alex Xu, Ben Burns, Jacob Evans, Brandon Millman and Greg Hysen. Personal Life He is skilled at C++, Java and SQL. He speaks fluent Japanese. In October 28, 2019 he attended the SF Blockchain Week 2019 as a guest speaker. The event was held at San Francisco, California, United States.