Carlo Barbara
Lead Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlo Barbara is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, secure systems across finance, retail, and startups from the New York City area. He blends hands-on software development (Python, Ruby, AWS, Docker, Terraform) with executive strategy—driving revenue growth through tech-enabled M&A, product integration, and operational automation. At Catalyst Power he scaled technology to support $22M in revenue and led NIST-aligned cybersecurity and risk programs; at Rent The Runway he cut hosting costs 37% and improved warehouse throughput via integrations. He has deep experience in portfolio and trade infrastructure, automating pricing reconciliations to replace hours of manual work with minute-level tooling. An active contributor to the Dropwizard ecosystem, he has improved documentation and example apps for a widely used Java REST framework—demonstrating attention to developer experience as well as production reliability. Practical, data-driven, and commercially minded, he excels at translating business requirements into secure, repeatable engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math & Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math & Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
dropwizard10
javas10
restful10
rest-services10
java10
documentation10
webservice10
jersey-framework9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 161 commits, 100 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Carlo primarily focused on improving the documentation and internal structure of the Dropwizard library. Their work involved adding detailed documentation for the `ServerFactory` class and updating existing documentation files to enhance clarity. Furthermore, they made some code changes related to the example application, specifically involving view rendering and filter implementation.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
carlo-rtr/dropwizard
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:31 pushes, 43 branches, 2 comments in 6 months
apiproduction-readyrestfulweb-servicesweb-services-restful
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