resume

Basics

Name Nathan Axel
Title Software Engineer
Email nathanaxel.jobs@gmail.com
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanaxel/
Summary Junior SWE currently working in a HFT shop as a C++ Core Dev.

Work

  • 2024.07 - Present

    Singapore

    Junior Software Engineer
    Grasshopper
    • Market Connectivity Team. Many new and exciting projects!
  • 2024.02 - 2022.05

    Singapore

    Software Engineer Intern
    MS Capital
    • Developed real-time market connectivity framework tailored for high-frequency trading, merging WebSocket and HTTP protocols for market data subscription and trade execution, with C++ multithreading
  • 2023.05 - 2022.07

    Singapore

    Software Engineer Summer Analyst
    Goldman Sachs
    • Engineered high-performance code-searching tool on 190 million lines of code for 17,000 engineers worldwide, reducing search time by 10x and index time by 3x compared to previous tool using Elasticsearch and Kibana
    • Leveraged Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) to efficiently manage servers, storage, and OS (RHEL 8) using Terraform
  • 2023.01 - 2022.05

    Singapore

    Jr. Solution Developer
    F5
    • Developed case review management application for reviewing engineers performance, saving 6500 annual man-hours for support managers worldwide using Salesforce Lightning Web Component (LWC)
    • Assembled data visualization to predict and optimize APAC staffing distributions using Tableau
  • 2022.05 - 2022.08

    Singapore

    Software Engineer Intern
    Anacle
    • Developed comprehensive SQL stored procedures scripts and conducted rigorous unit testing using tSQLt libraries to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of database operations.
    • Created tenant management dashboards for data visualization, by leveraging ASP .NET framework.
  • 2021.05 - 2021.07

    Singapore

    IT & Specialized Assurance Intern
    Deloitte
    • Developed automated host configuration review scripts to evaluate cyber-security readiness using Python.

Education

  • 2020.08 - 2024.06

    Singapore

    B.Eng with Honours (Computer Science)
    Nanyang Technological University
    Highest Distinction (First Class)
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • High Performance Computing
    • Blockchain

Awards

  • 2020.08.01
    Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship
    Associations of Banks in Singapore, Public Service Commission
    The scholarship was awarded to 3 individuals in Asia for university education, spanning four years.
  • 2016.01.01
    ASEAN Scholarship
    Ministry of Education, Singapore
    The scholarship was awarded to 10 Indonesians for secondary and pre-university education, spanning four years.

Publications

  • 2024.05.01
    Multi-Chain Energy Trading in Microgrids
    Nanyang Technological University
    It concerned the discussion and implementation of universal interoperability across blockchains in energy trading in microgrids.

Projects

  • 2023.07 - 2023.07
    Goldman Sachs Intern Hackathon 2023: Generative AI
    Spearheaded a multidisciplinary team of quantitative researchers and software developers to build portfolio tailoring system to recommend security assets during major live news using OpenAI API
    • Voice-Text Transcription
    • Sentiment Analysis
    • Monte Carlo, Geometric Brownian Motion
  • 2023.03 - 2023.03
    Optiver Ready Trader Go 2023
    Developed automated high frequency market-making algorithms in C++ to maximise profits when two securities tracking the same index (Future & ETF) have different liquidity in their order books
    • C++
    • Market Making