Our Mission

PAX is engineering the future of digital asset exchanges. Our patented λ API brings traders closer to the exchange than ever before, unlocking new levels of market efficiency and enabling the fastest tick-to-trade in the industry.

BACKED BY
EXPERIENCE FROM
Jane Street
Citadel Securities
Point72
DRW
Jump Trading
Nvidia
Apple
Google
Brex
Alpaca
EDX Markets
MEET OUR TEAM
Pete Stevenson

Pete Stevenson

Co-Founder & CEO

Pete helped build the world's fastest futures trading strategy using custom silicon at Citadel Securities, and more recently, he worked with a small team running quant research for crypto HFT across multiple CEX and DEX venues.

Ben Kilimnik

Ben Kilimnik

Co-Founder & CTO

Ben was a systems researcher working on cryptography, privacy, and databases. As an engineer and quantitative developer, he's designed profiling tools for distributed systems and built low-latency systems for trading crypto.

Jasleen Bains

Jasleen Bains

Fractional Chief Compliance Officer

Jasleen is CEO of Bains Labs, a compliance outsourcing and financial crime advisory consultancy specializing in digital assets. Previously, she served as Chief AML and Sanctions Officer at EDX Markets and spent over 7 years at the U.S. Department of State.

Cody Campo

Cody Campo

Fractional Chief Operating Officer

Cody is Director of Trading Operations at Alpaca Markets, where he previously served as Director of Crypto Operations (COO). He has experience in equities and digital asset trading, portfolio management, and regulatory compliance across multiple continents.

Kartik Pattaswamy

Kartik Pattaswamy

Founding Software Engineer

Kartik is a distributed systems engineer with experience in eBPF observability tools and cloud infrastructure. He previously worked at Pixie Labs and New Relic. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from UIUC.

Junwoo Lee

Junwoo Lee

Founding Software Engineer

Junwoo has over two decades of software engineering experience at Google, Brex, and most recently, a proprietary crypto trading firm.

Vighnesh Iyer

Vighnesh Iyer

Founding Principal Hardware Engineer

Vighnesh is a hardware engineer with expertise in high-performance FPGA design, computer architecture, and hardware emulation. At PAX, he contributes to the design and verification of PAX's hardware-accelerated exchange algorithm.

Leela Pakanati

Leela Pakanati

Founding Principal Hardware Engineer

Leela is a hardware engineer with expertise in FPGA design and scalable low-latency trading systems. He has built order-book hardware, trigger engines, and cross-exchange communication infrastructure at Point72 and DRW.

Coming Soon

Founding Software Engineer

We're growing our software team.

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