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Benjamin Goroshnik is a Volatility Trader at PEAK6 in New York, NY, where he specializes in developing and executing trading strategies focused on volatility products and derivatives within the equity markets. His role involves risk management, pricing, and optimizing positions in complex financial instruments, with a primary focus on equity options and related volatility assets.
Before joining PEAK6, Benjamin gained significant experience as a quantitative developer intern at Morgan Stanley and held trading internships at Citadel and PEAK6, refining his expertise in automated trading and quantitative analysis. He also served as Co-President at the Carolina Poker Club and President at Velocity Labs, demonstrating leadership in both financial and analytical problem-solving environments.
Benjamin holds a degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he sharpened his analytical and quantitative skills that form the foundation of his trading approach. He has contributed to the industry with innovative strategy development and has a track record for performance in both traditional and alternative trading settings.
Career History
| Organization | Role | Date Range | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEAK6 | Volatility Trader | Aug 2025 to Present | — |
| Carolina Poker Club | Co-President | Jan 2024 to Aug 2025 | • President of UNC Poker Club (over 200 members).
• Sponsored by Jane Street, Peak6, and many other firms. |
| Velocity Labs | President | Aug 2022 to Aug 2025 | • UNC's premier quant trading/research club.
• Managing technology buildup, employing three StatArb trading strategies on low liquidity ETFs.
• Interviewed and selected team of multidisciplined driven... |
| Citadel | Summer Intern | Jun 2024 to Aug 2024 | • Received an offer to return as a full-time analyst.
• Spearheaded the development of a GUI to display KDB tables showcasing key risks and performance indicators for PnL-driving teams.
• Won 5th plac... |
| PEAK6 | Quantitative Trading Spring Intern | May 2024 to Jun 2024 | Trading intern for May 2024.
• Learned about various volatility mean reversion and dispersion strategies; proposed trade ideas directly to PMs. |
| The Burning Glass Institute | Economics Researcher | Dec 2023 to Jun 2024 | BGI is a global economics think tank specializing in labor market research.
• Collaborated directly with Gad Levanon, Chief Economist of BGI, on various labor market research publications. |
| Zuul | Head of Innovation and Technology | Aug 2022 to Apr 2024 | • Lead the development of a cloud-based data middleware startup under the guidance of the CTO.
• Drove requirements for the full 5-person developer team, maintaining the team 2 months ahead of schedul... |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Teaching Assistant (COMP 488 and BUSI 488 and MBA 742) | Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 | — |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Financial Disclosure Researcher | May 2023 to Nov 2023 | Along with several faculty mentors, I am researching churn disclosure as it pertains to SaaS firms.
• Utilizing Natural Language Processing to parse and interpret churn disclosures in SEC filings.
• ... |
| Morgan Stanley | Quantitative Developer Intern | Jun 2023 to Sep 2023 | Received an offer to return next summer. Worked under Automated Risk Trading, a team that develops algorithms used by both internal and external (hedge fund) traders such as Delta Owl. Building front-... |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Data Science Teaching Assistant (COMP 488 and BUSI 488) | Jan 2023 to May 2023 | Responsible for utilizing data visualization tools for COMP & BUSI 488: Data Science in the Business World. Tools include Seaborn and Yellowbrick, which extend the Scikit-Learn API to make model selec... |
| Brooklyn Public Library | Technology Resource Specialist | Apr 2019 to Aug 2020 | • Collaborated with Technology team to drastically increase efficiency of technology operations.
• Designed and led a city-wide computer modeling and 3D printing class.
• Received a grant to purchase... |
| Deutsche Bank | Global Tech Hackathon Judge | May 2019 to Jun 2019 | Invited to judge the annual DB Tech Hackathon in 2019 in conjunction with senior executives at DB. The three-day-long hackathon involved DB colleagues from 4 US cities who pooled together their creati... |
| Leading AI Firm | Spring Co-op | Dec 2024 to Jul 2025 | Prompt Engineering & Hyperparameter Tuning. |
| Alpha Theory | Quantitative Research Intern | Sep 2024 to Apr 2025 | • Alpha Capture |
| Weaver Mine Capital Management, LLC | Spring Intern | Dec 2023 to May 2024 | Systematic fund trading high sharpe strategies based in the research triangle.
• Developed a proprietary algorithm to measure the fund’s performance over time by determining statistical significance o... |
| Impact Partners Fund | Investment Analyst | Aug 2022 to Jan 2023 | • Evaluated multiple quantitative financial metrics including Expected Multiple Return, Net Operating Income, Cash on Cash Yield, Internal Rate of Return, Gross Rent Multiplier, LTV Ratio
• Generated ... |
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021 — 2025
Others at Peak6 LLC (40)
| Name | Role | Location |
|---|---|---|
 | Trading Associate | Chicago, IL , United States |
 | Senior Research Analyst | Chicago, IL , United States |
B Barbara Sun | Equity Options Trader | Austin, TX , United States |
 | Propriety Options Trader - Division Manager | Clarendon Hills, IL , United States |
B Benjamin Fisher | Equity and Index Options Trader | Chicago, IL , United States |
D Dan FitzGerald | Sr. Research Analyst | United States |
D David Budworth | Partner | Austin, TX , United States |
E Ethan Carter | Foreign Exchange Trader | Chicago, IL , United States |
 | Partner | Chicago, IL , United States |
H Huanlong Li | analyst | Chicago, IL , United States |
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