DAVE LOW

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SUMMARY


I'm deeply obsessed with solving problems, particularly in the intersection of financial markets and low-latency systems. Constantly in pursuit of new challenges and dedicated to lifelong learning.


EXPERIENCE


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    Quantitative Developer

    Worked on simulation backend and cloud infrastructure in a early-stage MFT pod.
    - Parallelised backtesting flow by routing jobs to standalone dynamically-sized instances instead of a generic instance group.
    - Reduced cloud computing costs by creating a microservice to monitor CPU utilisation and automatically resize or stop idle instances.
    - Extended backtesting pipeline to support custom multi-instrument books and hedging with index futures.
    [Python]

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    Software Engineer

    Backend engineer in TikTok Shop Logistics team.
    - Improved inter-service reliability and decoupled architecture by deprecating RPC in favor of Kafka.
    - Architected multi-region support, aiding in smoother expansion across new markets.
    [Go]

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    Internship

    Worked on latency-sensitive features for intefacing with Autonomous Vehicles. [C++]

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    Internship

    Built from scratch trade execution and market data systems on Binance/OKX. [Python]

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    Internship

    Early efforts building a C++ matching engine/aggregator with a multi-threaded epoll server. [C++]

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    Internship

    Worked on a project to revamp legacy infrastructure with an Event-Driven architecture. [Python]


EDUCATION


Computer Science

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National University of Singapore

SKILLS


• Languages: C++, Python, Go, SQL
• Technologies: Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform