Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• Expanded admin utility tool (in C#, MS SQL) with a feature to integrate new crypto currencies to the platform, including deployment of a deposit sweeper smart contract.
• Upgraded system to support receiving BTC deposits to native Segwit (P2WPKH) addresses alongside legacy (P2PKH), reducing fees and improving transaction scalability.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
• Led key full lifecycle projects within a Service Oriented Architecture, notably developing a transaction simulation service using Scala, Docker (Mesos + Marathon), and AWS. This improved transparency for cryptocurrency token transfers and dApp interactions, significantly enhancing client safety during contract execution.
• Implemented a transaction hash signing system with a focus on client privacy, using Node.js, Scala, and React, which secured transactions exceeding $50m.
• Developed scalable REST APIs and managed complex business flows for blockchain integration, enabling Avalanche and Ethereum crypto staking. This led to over $26m in client stakes at 8%+ reward rates.
• Promptly resolved high-stakes issues such as a $100k deposit that was stuck in payment system processing due to a concurrency race condition in Postgres, demonstrating swift troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Developed a batch deposit contract in Solidity, enabling 8000 ETH staking per transaction, reducing gas fees and ensuring scalability. Verified its robustness with Hardhat testing.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
London, England, United Kingdom
Worked in Discover & Insights team. Created a Price Streamer for securities, user investment performance metrics (MWRR, TWRR), worked on SIPP pension account onboarding/management.
• Led a team of 4 engineers in the end-to-end development of a real-time Node.js microservice project, orchestrated by Kubernetes. This project dramatically increased stock price update frequency from every 4-5 minutes to nearly every second, enhancing user experience, influencing investment decisions, and boosting the DAU/MAU rate by 4%.
• Architected and managed a scalable GCP cloud infrastructure, including Node.js (TypeScript) REST APIs and Pub/Sub event-driven cloud functions, Firestore database, Airflow pipelines, and BigQuery analytics. This infrastructure supported personalized portfolio metrics for 1.5M+ daily users.
• Mentored junior engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and enhancing productivity, leading to a more robust infrastructure.
• Optimized and built ETL data pipelines in a large shared codebase in Airflow using Python, achieving savings of over $150K annually in cloud computing costs.
• Engineered a proof-of-concept web platform using Next.js (React and TypeScript) in under a week, fast-forwarding the company's roadmap by 2 months, highlighted in the 2022 crowdfunding pitch deck.
• Maintained 99.95% uptime during on-call duties, swiftly addressing incidents, activating backup pipelines as needed, and conducting post-mortem analyses to effectively resolve critical pipeline errors.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Worked on Deep Learning (object tracking via Fully-Convolutional Siamese Network SiamFC) and Azure cloud projects.
• Enhanced Deep Learning models in MATLAB by introducing checkpoint loading for seamless training resumption.
• Boosted AUTOSAR validation performance by 15% by porting MATLAB code to C++.
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Interned in Flights Pricing, worked on the migration of data centre services to AWS cloud computing.
• Improved responsiveness by decreasing P95 latency to under 60ms by migrating monolith to scalable containerised microservices using Java, Python, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ and Kubernetes in AWS.
Education
The University of Edinburgh
Master of Science - MS
2017 — 2018
The University of Manchester
Bachelor of Science - BS
2014 — 2017
Riga State Gymnasium No. 1
Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program
2007 — 2013