Senior Backend Engineer
TrendSpider LLC
Senior Backend/platform engineer on the engineering team building TrendSpider's trading analytics platform, reporting directly to the CTO. Owned core Node.js/Typescript microservices, AWS Lambda data pipelines, queues, databases, Docker runtimes, and CI/CD, and led technical decisions for major backend/platform capabilities, including authentication, non-market-data integrations, serverless architecture, and scanner/custom scripting.
- Replaced the WordPress-based login with a standalone authentication and user-hydration service in Node.js, enabling independent scaling for thousands of concurrent users.
- Built the backend used in the AI coding assistant, which also powers code generation in Sidekick, TrendSpider's AI agent. Traders describe an indicator, strategy or trading bot in plain English, the system concerts to code and it in a sandbox and lets them backtest it on historical data.
- Owned third-party integrations and data pipelines for Federal Reserve data, FINRA, 13F filings, and WallStreetBets/Reddit content, used across charts, scanners and watchlists.
- Built backend features for the market scanner and custom JavaScript scripting, such as custom indicators, data comparison and backtesting, running scans across thousands of tickers on demand.
- Led Node.js/Typescript modernization on every backend service, 10+ microservices on Kubernetes plus the Lambda functions, handling native C++ module compatibility, breaking changes and a security review for each major version since v10.
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Fastify
- Express
- AWS Lambda
- SQS
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- CloudWatch
- AI Agents