You should not treat this page as a resume. If you want that, email me at oliverthehayman@gmail.com.
I currently work as a quant on the energy options market-making desk at DRW Holdings. I focus mostly on signal research and developing / managing our automated trading systems, and am legally obligated to not say much more.
My current interests outside of work are:
- Machine learning, and AI alignment
- The design and development of states and empires
- Organizing cool stuff
Probably in that order?
I really like working on personal projects! Some recent ones I’m proud of are:
- I’m currently working on building tooling around the chrome extension Curius, which many of my friends use to link each other articles. I am currently working on making a CLI for exploring its user graph.
- In June 2025 I cofounded and co-organized the inaugural Second Order Retreat, a series of retreats for economics researchers in Europe.
- From 2023 - 2025, I was part of the admissions committee for SPARC, a rationality camp for highschoolers. I lead this committee in 2023-2024 and designed its reviewing software once airtable got too greedy.
- I was president of Oxford’s AI safety society from 2023 to 2024.
- I also organized and lead an ML bootcamp in Oxford for software engineers.
- I published a reinforcement learning paper about preventing reward hacking. Check out this blog post!
- I worked on mechanistic interpretability of Go-playing models at Redwood Research in early 2023