DAVE LOW

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  •  linkedin.com/in/davelowqx  •  Singapore

Building market data systems, backtesting and trading infrastructure.

Languages: C++, Python, Go

Technologies: Polars, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Elasticsearch

Cloud: AWS, GCP, Cloudflare


EXPERIENCE


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    Quantitative Developer

    Developed research infrastructure and internal tooling for an early-stage MFT pod
    - Owned in-house backtest platform that allowed researchers to iterate on alphas at scale
    - Parallelised backtests by provisioning dedicated VMs for each job, tightening feedback loop from hours to minutes
    - Extended platform to support custom trading universes, trading restrictions and index hedging.
    - Reduced cloud costs ~60% with service that restarts preempted VMs and monitors CPU/Memory utilization
    - Built frontend to simplify managing and monitoring of VMs for researchers
    - Created Terraform configurations for multi-dependency deployments on GCP
    [Python, Polars, Redis, GCP Compute Engine/Spanner/Cloud Scheduler]

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    Backend Engineer

    Worked on backend services supporting TikTok Shop's logistics between sellers and delivery hubs
    - Enabled new market launches by implementing region-specific features and multi-region deployments
    - Improved service decoupling by migrating inter-service communication from RPC to Kafka
    - Reduced API response latency by migrating from polling to server-side push
    - Responded to and resolved production incidents during EU hours
    [Go, Kafka]

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    Internship

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

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    Internship

    Built from scratch execution and market data systems for Binance/OKX [Python, Kafka]

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    Internship

    Built a proof-of-concept C++ FIX matching engine for aggregating FX swap quotes across venues [C++]

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    Internship

    Prototyped an event-driven architecture using Apache Airflow/RabbitMQ for task scheduling [Python]


PROJECTS



EDUCATION


BComp, Computer Science

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National University of Singapore