Hi, I'm Alex 👋

"Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo."
_{The drop carves the stone not by force, but by falling often.}

🧭 About

Software engineer, systems architect, and CTO. After a decade in quantitative finance, I now lead engineering at the intersection of high-performance systems, AI, and Web3. Obsessed with correctness, latency, and shipping things that hold up under real load, from trading engines to distributed AI infrastructure.

⚡ What I Do

• Systems & Architecture — high-performance distributed systems, real-time processing, and resilient infrastructure.
• Quantitative Trading — 10+ years in electronic markets: HFT, market making, and automated options & equities strategies.
• AI & Data Science — embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, and real-time streaming pipelines.
• Cloud & DevOps — Kubernetes, GPU optimization, and scalable audio/video processing.
• Web3 — building on Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin.
• Security — pentesting and secure-by-design engineering.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

AI & Data

Backend & APIs

Frontend

Streaming & Messaging

Databases

Cloud & DevOps

Cloud Platforms

Web3

🚀 Open Source Projects

Project	Description	Tech
darwin-agents	Self-modifying AI agents with programmable wallets & evolutionary fitness	Python
kwami	3D interactive AI companion library — visual, audio & speech-enabled AI entities	TypeScript
z-trading	High-frequency trading framework with 300+ strategies across multiple venues	C
rex-ai	Quantitative FX trading model using RNNs, LSTMs & Transformers	Jupyter
websec	Web security & pentesting toolkit	Python
linkedin-spider	Large-scale LinkedIn profile collection via Google Search	Python

📊 GitHub Stats

_{❤️ Always learning. Open to collaboration on ambitious open-source work.}