Austin Starks
Founder, CEO at NexusTrade
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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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.
7 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
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Github Skills (47)
trading10
llama10
finance10
automated-trading10
stock-analysis10
go10
mistral10
golang10
ollama10
frontend10
trading-algorithms9
llm9
minimax9
gpt9
gemma9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
austin-starks/ta-rs-improved
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Technical analysis library for Rust language
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes in 2 years 7 months
rust-languagechatgptfundamental-analysisinvestingopenai
austin-starks/Deep-RL-Stocks
Mar 2021 - May 2024
Reinforcement Learning for Stock Market Prediction
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
reinforcement-learningaiartificial-intelligencemachine-lestock-market
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