Anthony Morast
Engineering Team Lead Margin & Risk at Alpaca
Montana, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Morast is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance trading, margin, and risk systems, currently leading Margin & Risk engineering at Alpaca. He combines deep C++ and Go expertise with a strong finance focus, having designed OMS/RMS and margining capabilities used in production trading environments. Anthony has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks—introducing Python for noncritical services, protocol buffers over Kafka/TCP, and establishing C++ package management with Conan and Artifactory. His academic background in computational sciences and robotics (MS, 4.0) informs a data-driven approach to system design and algorithmic problem solving. Based in Montana, he blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, shipping scalable, reliable finance infrastructure while keeping a curious "finance nerd" coder's mentality.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Sciences and Robotics, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computational Sciences and Robotics, 4.0 at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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Github Skills (38)
python-interface10
tabular9
datatables9
blackbox8
ros8
api8
data-structure8
simulator8
trading7
simulation7
finance7
cryptocurrency7
computer-vision7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
cpp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anthonymorast/cppart
Nov 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:114 pushes, 3 branches, 13 issues in 6 years 2 months
anthonymorast/lstm-lstm
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:49 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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