Team
Our team is made up of experienced professionals with a passion for algorithmic trading and software development. We're driven by the pursuit of excellence in trading system design and engineering.
We strive to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of algorithmic trading. Our collective skills and experience have enabled us to create solutions that are not only robust but also highly customizable and adaptable to the evolving needs of traders.
Chris Sellers
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chris has worked as an engineering manager for a FinTech market data provider startup and lead developer for an algorithmic trading firm. Drawing on over a decade of experience with algorithmic trading, system design for complex environments and software engineering.
Chris brings a unique perspective to the team, stemming from his unconventional background as an airline pilot with a deep interest in computers.
Although these fields are seemingly unrelated, Chris integrates the values he gained as a pilot into his role within the finance industry.
Filip Macek
Software Engineer
Filip is a software engineer with a strong background in mathematics and finance, bringing a wealth of professional experience and a deep passion for building distributed and highly concurrent systems in the networking and financial industries.
Whether orchestrating complex trading platforms or optimizing backend infrastructure, he thrives on turning challenging problems into elegant solutions.
With years of hands-on experience designing trading algorithms, strategies, and quantitative systems, Filip combines creativity and technical expertise, always eager to push the boundaries of what's possible.
Ishan Bhanuka
Software Engineer
Ishan has worked as an engineer and consultant across many projects ranging from web servers and file systems to big data platforms and cloud native applications.
He has deep experience building high performance systems without compromising on correctness and maintainability.
Ishan has earned a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science with a special focus on programming languages. His background in compilers and type systems research informs many of his design choices.
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