Resume

Software Engineer — ZK Frames (Startup) Dec 2024 – July 2026 I joined ZK Frames as an early engineer at a market making startup, where I ended up owning a wide slice of the backend, from the core trading logic to the infrastructure it ran on. - Core Engine I built the core market making bot engine, the piece of software responsible for generating and managing orders on exchanges based on the team's trading strategy logic. This meant working close to the strategy layer, translating trading rules into live order management running against real exchanges. - Data Infrastructure Alongside the engine, I designed and maintained the backend pipeline that collects, stores and streams high frequency market data. I built exchange connectors over REST and WebSocket to pull live order book and trade data from multiple exchanges, and used Timescaledb to store that data efficiently at scale, since it's built for time series workloads. I also researched and implemented approaches to keep the pipeline reliable as data volume grew, so it wouldn't fall behind the market. - Leadership As the team grew, I took on responsibility for a team of 3 monitoring engineers and 2 developers, coordinating priorities and reviewing their work to keep the systems running reliably. - Client Communication I also handled direct communication with clients, gathering their data requirements and working through issues with them, then translating that into concrete technical fixes. - Deployment I deployed and maintained all of these services in production, since the strategies the team traded with depended on the engine and the data pipeline staying stable and accurate around the clock.