Friday Hacks #277, August 22: On Open Evolutionary Agents and the Life of an Order
Posted on by Prakamya Singh
Date/Time: Friday, August 22 at 7:00pm SGT
Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS
Sign-up Link: Sign-up here
Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!
1) OpenEvolve: Towards Open Evolutionary Agents
OpenEvolve is an open-source evolutionary coding agent that democratizes algorithmic discovery by combining LLMs with evolutionary computation. Our research demonstrates remarkable achievements: replicating AlphaEvolve’s mathematical optimization results, discovering GPU kernel optimizations with 12.5% performance improvements for transformer attention, and achieving 2.04x speedups on algorithm benchmarks. Surprisingly, open models like Gemma 3 27B and Qwen3-Coder rival proprietary alternatives, proving that cutting-edge evolutionary AI capabilities can be accessible to everyone. This talk presents our journey towards truly open evolutionary agents for automated algorithm discovery.
Speaker Profile 🎙️️
Dr. Asankhaya Sharma is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Patched.codes (YC S24), a deep-tech startup building open-source workflow automation that revolutionizes software security through AI-powered code fixes. He is also the Founder of Securade.ai, a tech4good venture preventing workplace accidents through generative AI video analytics.
2) Sequencers, Speed and the Strategic Life of an Order
This talk will take you inside the core of a high-performance trading system, following an order’s journey from the moment a strategy decides to trade to the instant that order reaches the market, and the execution report returns. We’ll unpack the sequencer architecture that enforces determinism, the risk and routing layers that run in the fast path, and the mechanisms that ensure scalability, reliability, and recoverability under extreme load. Attendees will get a clear, step-by-step view of how a production-grade system achieves predictable microsecond-level latency without sacrificing correctness.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Dr. Bogdan Tudor is a Senior Software Engineer and Managing Director at Virtu Financial Singapore
👋 See you there!