Alex Stark
Equity Trader at Kershner Trading Group
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Stark is a software engineer-turned-equity trader with 10 years of experience building production-grade systems and algorithmic trading strategies in the Greater Seattle Area. He combines deep infrastructure and data engineering pedigree from roles at Google, Airbnb, and Flexport—working on cloud storage rebalancing, ML-driven safety systems, and large-scale automation—to inform systematic equity trading and execution. Currently trading at Kershner Trading Group and Wisp Capital, he applies capacity planning, observability, and performance-testing rigor to market-facing models and pipelines. His background in chemical engineering and early work in manufacturing and logistics gives him a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to risk, latency, and cost trade-offs. Known for turning complex workflows into reliable automation (e.g., reducing LCL ops cost-to-serve by an order of magnitude), he bridges research-quality modeling with production reliability. Colleagues describe him as a technical generalist who favors measurable improvements and humans-in-the-loop safeguards over black-box solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorBachelor of Science Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
static-analysis10
analyzer10
formatter10
ruby10
code-analyzer10
linter10
ride9
polygon9
api9
python-client9
client-library8
screen-scraping8
websocket8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
complex-joins/carvis
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:104 commits, 19 PRs, 16 pushes in 23 days
voiceride
alexcstark/Hotspot
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:100 pushes, 9 branches, 1 issue in 1 month
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