Austin Starks
Founder, CEO at NexusTrade.io
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Starks is a founder and software engineer with six years of experience building AI-driven, production-grade systems and consumer-facing fintech products. As CEO of NexusTrade.io he designed and scaled a no-code, LLM-enhanced algorithmic trading platform to 30,000 users, shipping backtesting, paper trading and real brokerage integrations end-to-end. Previously at Oscar Health he delivered an integration generating $40M ARR and cut on-call burden by over 90%, and at Coinbase he led tax compliance and institutional onboarding efforts that unlocked regulated market access. He codes across Golang, Python, TypeScript, React and Rust, pairing machine learning techniques like RAG and prompt optimization with pragmatic engineering. A CMU and Cornell alumnus and former lab manager, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on product and growth ownership. Notably, he blends full-stack engineering with direct commercial impact—building both the trading engine and the business behind it.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Biology, Bachelor's degree, Computational Biology at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (28)
llama10
llm10
automated-trading10
mistral10
golang10
gemma10
ollama10
trading9
trading-algorithms9
finance9
go9
tushare9
frontend8
currency-exchange-rates8
indicator8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
austin-starks/Deep-RL-Stocks
Mar 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
austin-starks/NextTrade
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A system that performs algorithmic trading
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 3 days
pythonalgorithmic-tradingtrading-bottradingtrading-strategies
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