Andreas is a co-founder of Kappa, a cross-border payments platform focused on sub-Saharan Africa. He heads up product, engineering, and operations. Prior to Kappa, Andreas was a partner at Jetstone, where he ran the quantitative strategies team, managing $1.5bn in AUM. Prior to that, Andreas was a co-founder and partner at High Contrast Investments, a quantitative equities trading firm which he helped build from the ground up to $80m in daily trading volume. He started his career at Oxford Asset Management as a quantitative trader and developer. Andreas is a fellow at OnDeck and sits on the advisory board of Jetstone. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale where he worked on experimental quantum computing.
What do you expect your new engineering hires to achieve in the first six months after being hired?
Take end-to-end ownership of a significant piece of technology. This could be a core service or product feature, an infrastructure layer, or third-party integration. Ownership means going from a high-level objective — a statement of what we want to achieve — all the way to a working solution. From mapping out requirements and constraints, to underst
