Institutional digital-asset trading.

My background includes systematic crypto trading and DeFi. Outside work, I build apps for shared trips, newspapers and learning.

Ilya Shulman.
A personal corner of the internet.Take a look around
01 Professional background

My work
in markets.

2024–now

Bitcoin Suisse

Deputy Head of the Crypto Trading Desk

I help lead Bitcoin Suisse’s crypto trading desk, covering institutional execution and treasury trading. I led the launch of an agency execution flow with colleagues in legal, operations, treasury and development. I also work on derivatives to manage inventory risk and on reducing trading costs and improving desk profitability.

Institutional trading
2018–2024

dq Capital

Quant Trader

I ran systematic long–short strategies in crypto perpetual futures, working largely in R. I also traded funding-rate arbitrage and deployed collateral across DeFi protocols to improve capital efficiency.

Systematic trading & DeFi
2016–2018

Azurite Trading

Research Analyst Intern

My earlier experience was in physical commodities. I researched metals and mining markets, following news and market developments to support forecasts and business development. I also negotiated contracts with international transport companies.

Metals & mining
02 Selected personal projects

A few things
I’ve made.

A shared-expense ledger, a newspaper editor and a Zürich study app. I build these personal projects alongside my work in markets.

Personal project 01

Splitter

Shared expenses with family-based settlement, balances that carry into the next trip, and an optional AI comment when a bill lands.

Working web applicationInside the project
Try a fictional trip

Let families settle together.

Four people, two households, CHF600 in shared expenses.

  • DanAliceCHF 120
  • BenClaraCHF 40
2 paymentsCHF 160 to transfer

Each person settles their own balance.

See the balances
Each person’s share is CHF150. All names and amounts are fictional.
PersonPaidBalance
AliceCHF 270+CHF 120
BenCHF 110−CHF 40
ClaraCHF 190+CHF 40
DanCHF 30−CHF 120

Positive balances are owed money. Negative balances owe money.

Alice & Ben+CHF 80Clara & Dan−CHF 80
03 Away from the desk

Snow & water.

Outside work and personal projects, I enjoy snowboard freeriding and wakesurfing.

Keep in touch

Good conversations
start with a hello.

Markets, a project, or something we have in common.
I’d be glad to hear from you.

ilya@shulman.ch