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# whoami

I architect and build robust, scalable platforms for real-time data, automation, and analytics across finance, SaaS, and beyond.
Passionate about high-performance backend systems, developer tooling, and open source.

Experienced with Python, PHP, Node.js, C++, distributed systems, and all things cloud.
I believe the best solutions are simple, even for the most complex systems.

I write about trading systems and low-latency engineering on my blog.

# tail career.log

DRWSenior Software EngineerDec 2021 - Present
  • Scaled a distributed, fault-tolerant scraper network from ~50 to 400+ sources, maintaining zero downtime during market hours and ensuring real-time access to market-moving headlines and economic data.
  • Optimized the data acquisition pipeline by removing key performance bottlenecks: reduced load on the orchestrator by a factor of 100× and cut data processing time by a factor of over 10×, significantly improving system throughput and latency.
  • Enhanced social-media headline delivery by tuning distributed scrapers, reduced end-to-end latency from 1–3s down to <100ms, giving stakeholders near-instant visibility into market-moving posts.
  • Wrote low-latency parsing logic for equities earnings press releases, enabling extraction of key financial figures in sub-millisecond latency.
  • Led backend development of a real-time document analysis system that automatically processes earnings reports and streams enriched outputs, enabling faster decision-making on market-moving events and reducing manual analysis overhead
Authentik CanadaSenior Full Stack Web DeveloperMar 2017 - Dec 2021
  • Modernized a legacy monolithic codebase by refactoring it into a clean Laravel-based architecture, improving maintainability and scalability.
  • Developed Vue.js API-driven applications, enabling responsive and modular user interfaces.
  • Engineered a flexible and extensible system to integrate multiple hotel and booking APIs, significantly accelerating onboarding of new partners.
  • Designed and implemented a Trello/JIRA-inspired trip management tool from scratch, streamlining internal operations.
  • Developed and open-sourced a database caching module to reduce query load and enhance performance: eloquent-cache.
SSENSEBackend Web DeveloperMar 2016 - Feb 2017
  • Contributed to the company-wide transition toward microservice architecture, leading development of a gateway service to route and proxy requests to downstream services.
  • Collaborated across engineering teams to design scalable service interfaces and improve system modularity.
  • Authored and released multiple open-source projects, including tools for test automation and scheduling: node-cucumber-testrail-sync, node-sscheduler

# git log

Async Python API for efficient, real-time trading with Rithmic.

Seamless and efficient interaction with Rithmic's trading infrastructure, enabling advanced strategies and real-time data handling.

A developer-friendly Python library offering clean, idiomatic implementations of common software design patterns.

A fast binary append-only timeseries storage engine.

A Node.js library that calculates the odds of winning in Texas Holdem poker for any set of player hands and community cards.

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