Dubai · UAE · est. 2026

Quantitative engineering for markets that don't forgive.

Kenkobo Development is a research and infrastructure boutique. We design market-making strategies, high-fidelity simulators, and real-time data systems for desks that compete on microseconds and decimals.

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What we do

Services

Five practice areas. Each one shipped to production at institutional scale.

Market‑Making Strategy R&D

Reinforcement‑learning and neural‑network market‑making models for futures and crypto. From simulator prototype to live capital. Resilient under regulatory change — competitors recalibrate; ours hold.

High‑Fidelity Simulators

We reconstruct order‑level state between commercial 500 ms snapshots by modelling the feasible solution space. The result: backtests whose PnL closely tracks live deployment, instead of diverging on contact.

Crypto Market Infrastructure

Market‑making and mid‑frequency strategies for centralised crypto exchanges. Binance‑class connectivity, RL controllers, mid‑term price forecasting. Sim and live, end‑to‑end.

Real‑Time ML Data Pipelines

Online feature aggregation over Real‑Time MapReduce. Low‑latency feature stores, click‑stream pipelines, ranking infrastructure tested at internet‑search scale. Sub‑second freshness, predictable cost.

Microstructure & Capacity Analytics

Order‑book studies, capacity modelling, slippage attribution across venues. We've run live strategies at up to 40 % of market volume on individual instruments — we know where the ceiling is and how to find it.

Algorithmic Consulting

Code and architecture review, performance audits, technical due diligence. Quant‑engineer assessment for hiring committees. We've authored olympiad problems — we know how to test for genuine algorithmic depth.

In production

Track record

Selected outcomes from our principals' work — across prior roles at tier‑one quant funds and a major search engine, and from Kenkobo engagements since.

≤ 40 % vol Chinese futures market‑making. Strategy built from scratch on RL + neural networks. Scaled to nearly every futures contract across all Chinese exchanges. On some instruments accounted for up to 40 % of market volume.
RL · live Crypto expansion. Bespoke simulator and market‑making strategy for a tier‑one centralised crypto exchange. RL controller paired with mid‑term price forecasting. Profitable in simulation and in live deployment.
500 ms → ticks Simulator rebuild. Order‑level state reconstructed between 500 ms commercial snapshots by modelling the solution space — significant uplift in simulation fidelity and resulting PnL.
search-scale Real‑time ranking data. Online click‑aggregation pipeline on Real‑Time MapReduce, powering production ML ranking for one of the world's largest search engines.
resilient Regulatory robustness. While competitors retuned each regulatory change in Chinese futures, our market‑making strategy required only routine recalibration — outperforming through cycles.
9+ years Stack. C++ · Python · Rust · Linux · Git. Statistics, mathematical modelling, market microstructure, neural networks, reinforcement learning.

The team

Credentials.

Behind Kenkobo is a small team with credentials from the highest tiers of mathematics, competitive programming, and live quantitative trading. We bring olympiad‑grade algorithmic intuition and a decade of buy‑side experience to every engagement.

Gold International Mathematical Olympiad
Gold China Mathematics Olympiad
peak 2990 Codeforces · International Grandmaster, top‑50 worldwide
×4 ACM ICPC NEERC · I diploma
MSc Mathematics with honours · Functional Analysis
1st International Student Olympiad in Iran
2nd International Mathematics Competition for University Students
9+ yrs Live quantitative trading on the buy side

Jury members and problem authors for mathematics olympiads. Authors of competitive programming contests.

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Contact

For engagements, partnerships, or to discuss a quant problem you'd like a second opinion on — we read everything.

Company

Kenkobo Development LLC‑FZ

Registered

Meydan Free Zone

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates