About Us

We believe in making the markets safe to invest by giving investors the most powerful investment tools available. By democratizing powerful algorithmic trading technology we are enabling any engineer to design a strategy. With your permission we'll distribute your strategy to investors, earn you competitive performance bonuses, and give investors access to the new era of investing. We are a small, bootstrapped team so if you believe in our vision we'd love your help and support, please contact us, or post to the forums.

Jared Broad


Engineering, Co-Founder

As a former quant, Jared understands the needs of investment professionals and what vast opportunity is available for the public. He started and ran a private fund in 2010 beating the market for 18 months, before starting QuantConnect to make this technology available for everyone.

Shai Rosen


Operations and Sales, Co-Founder

A serial entrepreneur and sales expert, Shai has built two multi-million dollar companies for the retail space. He has experience with market-based companies building the most popular auction site in Chile in 2011. He tinkered with neural algorithm systems for his personal use.

Gustavo Avilés


UX, JS Engineer

A young, talented hard working engineer. Gustavo has a coding blog, enjoys good coffee and is our inhouse JS hacker. On his own time he surfs and rides a motorbike.

Paul Miller


C#, Big Data Engineer

Paul brings ten years experience in C# engineering, data analysis and .NET technologies. He single-handily built the autocomplete engine and continues to tune our engine for speed!

James Haft


Strategic Advisor

James has over 25 years experience in investment banking and entrepreneurship. He is a mentor at TechStarsNY and advises over 20 Internet-based startups. James was the head of Asian Investment Banking in Hong Kong for Bear Stearns and the Head of Latin American Equity Capital Markets for ING Barings. More...

Alejandro Canete


Strategic Advisor

Head Quant with 10 years of diverse technical, business and trading experience, with emphasis in design of open-source based technology for risk management & trading, deployment of performance architectures for large scale simulations and trading of high frequency & statistical arbitrage strategies.