Shellshocked
Pigeon vignettes
I have most recently been working at Square as a staff software engineer and technical lead on high-throughput payment systems, where I have helped take new products from zero to $5B+ in volume and $100M+ in annual gross PnL. I was promoted to Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead at 23, and my work has been cited in multiple shareholder letters.
Before Square, I was the first engineer and technical lead at a fintech startup building employer-side financial wellness tools for stock compensation, RSUs, and 10b5-1 plan management.
Before that, I started a few small businesses as a teenager and moved to San Francisco immediately after high school to start working in tech.
I'm taking a short sabbatical to explore what's next, deepen my skills, and spend time on problems I've wanted to tackle for a while.
In that time, I've been working on projects that combine markets, infrastructure, and applied engineering:
- Market data infrastructure for niche assets, PMs, and crypto with institutional-quality standards and formats.
- A paid technical publication on quantitative development and trading-systems engineering.
- Researching and building systematic HFT/MFT strategies in niche, capacity-constrained markets.
Posts / travel & life
Noise complaint
Cacophony in the bunker
Lessons from a virtual world
Incentives, status, and human behavior in a virtual world
Morocco
Chipped stone makes pockmarks out of what was once an imposing fortress.
Jordan
Where racing camels outpace cars. My favorite destination.
Dad
On fathers and little scraps of wisdom
Technical writing
Databases: Indexing
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Negative interest rates
My crude attempt at understanding negative interest rates.
Efficient coding interviews
A small guide on testing your code during interviews.
Databases: Soft deletion
To delete, or not to delete, that is the question.
The job hunt
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.