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Last active November 12, 2019 16:14
Daniel Chong @Spark Systems

Daniel Chong - Senior Developer, Spark Systems Pte Ltd

Employee #1 reporting to CTO at Spark Systems, a fintech startup that serves forex traders in hedge funds and banks, by providing a stable and ultra-low latency marketplace with aggregators and algorithms for order execution. Spark Systems is now a stable company with more than 30 employees. It recently won the 2019 Emerging Enterprise Award organized by OCBC and Business Times to recognize promising young businesses with annual sales turnover of up to S$20 million and which are outstanding in their respective fields.

  • Sole developer responsible for the implementation of execution algorithms—aggressive, take profit, stop loss, passive, loop, synthetic cross—catering for multiple books (multiple brokers) and business rules that impose “speed bumps” between and within liquidity source pools. More than $1 Trillion in volume traded through these algorithms since 2017 (USD equivalent, non-swaps).

  • Implemented smart order routing algorithm that calculat

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danielchong / ponderthis.md
Last active August 31, 2025 10:14
"Ponder This" challenges solved by Daniel Chong Jyh Tar

IBM Research Ponder This challenges solved by Daniel Chong Jyh Tar

The following is the list of my Ponder This solves to date. My full name Daniel Chong Jyh Tar appears in the leaderboards of the puzzle pages linked below.

My 120 solves (with longest streak of 69 months from dec 2019 to aug 2025):