[praeconium]

Its bound to be extremely hard because though quants code and there should be many similarities with soft dev - its a different beast. Many scientist make the switch and run major firms, but someone like a front-dev making switch, would be interesting to see. More likely to be smth outside of soft dev role that got him in.

Quant crowd hangs on NuclearPhynance forum, but for what You are asking WallStreetOasis is the place.

But..

1. Not really PhD, but You have to learn math somewhere.

2. Start trading crypto Yourself.. there are so many exchanges giving You direct access for free.. fetch a market feed, reconstruct limit order book in real time, backtest some strategies, do deep learning models. They do the same.

3. You have to be lucky, just like anywhere. There are lots of unsatisfied people in tech though it pays more than ever.

4. No idea.

5. Two years or so, but previous roles were quantitative.

I am trying to make transition myself, let me know if You need more info..

www.vladovukovic.com

[mightymosquito]

What would you suggest I read up on in quantitative finance and mathematics to get started with algorithmic trading.

My background: I have a computer science graduate with about 5 years of experience building very high throughput consumer facing applications as a backend developer.