Self Employed
Husband and Father
Raising twin boys, doing some trading, and studying chess (currently a FIDE master).
Ryan Porter
Backend Software Engineer of trading systems. Employee #1 at hedge fund trading billions/day. Developed market making system from scratch, and ran it profitably for over 5 years.
Backend Software Engineer of trading systems. Employee #1 at hedge fund trading billions/day. Developed market making system from scratch, and ran it profitably for over 5 years.
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Grubstakes
Member
Grubstakes is a group of angel investors in the Seattle area who enjoy meeting with and advising startups from their earliest stages. When there's a fit, we form member-led... more syndicates to make an investment. Through Grubstakes I met the founders of Factal and organized a group investment.
Portfolia
Investing Member
Portfolia offers an engaging and educational experience, with members participating in pitch calls and joining due diligence teams alongside highly experienced lead investors.... more Portfolia is especially interested in companies led by women and/or with diverse founder teams, and where a national base of sophisticated and connected investors can impact success. Portfolia welcomes all accredited investors. www.portfolia.com
oneZero Financial
Senior Software Engineer
Developed and maintained trade routing and execution technology used by banks, brokerages and hedge funds, mostly in C++ and for forex. Wrote the initial version of a plugin... more API that allowed core functionality to be customized using DLLs. Added a new framework for collecting and analyzing quote and trade data.
Bittrex
Software Engineer
Aided the development and launch of a new backend platform and new API. Created a trading bot to test the platform and API both for correctness and scalability.
High Amplitude Trading Capital (HatCap)
Founder, Founder
Started own proprietary stock trading firm, centered on automated market-making strategy. The only money invested was an initial $50K, the maximum exposure to any single stock... more was $3K, and the total net profit exceeded $3MM.
All software was written from scratch in Java (including strategy, monitoring, accounting, risk controls). Other strategies included OCR feeding into an automated trading strategy. Developed Alternative Data framework and used to track daily sales data for a dozen sites.
All software was written from scratch in Java (including strategy, monitoring, accounting, risk controls). Other strategies included OCR feeding into an automated trading strategy. Developed Alternative Data framework and used to track daily sales data for a dozen sites.
SeaChange Fund
Member
I was an investor and active member of the SeaChange Fund (formerly Seattle Angel Fund) for the first six of its annual funds. I greatly enjoyed being involved in all stages... more of the investment process, from screening to due diligence. I represent the fund on the board of Factal.
Factal
Board Member and Investor
Investor through both Grubstakes and SeaChange Fund. Served as a board member representing SeaChange through Factal's Series A raise.
Through a combination of automation... more and skilled editors, Factal provides real time, actionable news to corporate security teams. I was drawn to the quality of the team and the fact that they started with so much industry demand from their time running a similar service at Breaking News.
Through a combination of automation... more and skilled editors, Factal provides real time, actionable news to corporate security teams. I was drawn to the quality of the team and the fact that they started with so much industry demand from their time running a similar service at Breaking News.
AMA Capital
Software Engineer
First employee at a very small, foreign exchange hedge fund that developed an automated system which traded billions per day. Worked on all aspects of the system, from developing... more new strategies to analyzing their results.
Exit
Software Engineer
Developed core back-end functionality. Overhauled revisioning code to reduce both runtime and space complexity. Developed a system which enabled federated searches against... more external data sources, and which propagated changes from the external data sources to our main server. Added group-based access control which supported discovery, read, write, and ownership permissions at the level of individual properties.
Exit
Software Engineer
Worked on a system that monitored competitor offerings across hundreds of competitors. Stabilized and migrated the system after it was suddenly moved from a subsidiary.
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