Andrew Y
Managing Director at Los Angeles Capital Management
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Y is a managing director and polyglot software engineer with over 20 years at the intersection of finance and technology, now focusing on technology strategy to improve investment process efficiency. He’s built and scaled mission-critical trading and execution systems from startup FIX engines to enterprise derivatives sales platforms, and has launched products end-to-end—from napkin sketches to globally deployed businesses. Technically fluent across Go, Solidity, Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript and cloud-native stacks, he practices pragmatic TDD and enjoys pair programming while mentoring distributed teams. His background uniquely combines front-office trading experience, product management, and hands-on engineering—enabling him to translate complex domain requirements into reliable, auditable systems. Outside core finance, he’s active in DeFi, OpenData and privacy initiatives and has contributed to blockchain persistence work for MakerDAO.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Rutgers University
Github Skills (15)
ethereum10
blockchain10
p2p9
go9
geth9
solidity5
smart-contracts5
java4
android3
elixir1
http-server1
go-ethereum1
backend1
game-development1
ruby1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yaoandrew/poker-hand-scorer
Mar 2017 - May 2020
This project focuses on applying OO design principles and utilizing TDD to create a poker hand scoring tool.
Contributions:27 PRs, 81 pushes, 30 branches in 3 years 2 months
design-principlesprinciplesscoringhandoo-design
rexfordkelly-on-makersquare/Orbital-Drop
May 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:9 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 issues in 4 years
airdrop
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