Chris Busbey
Senior Manager at DRW
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Busbey is a seasoned senior engineering leader with 14+ years building high-performance, cloud-native systems for capital markets and low-latency trading platforms. As former CTO of Connamara Systems and now Senior Manager at DRW, he blends hands-on protocol and systems work with strategic responsibility for roadmaps, quality, and development best practices. His background includes deep expertise in distributed systems, FIX protocol implementations (contributions to quickfix/quickfix in Go), and security-focused work on ZeroMQ including GSSAPI integration. He thrives at the intersection of dev and ops, favoring pragmatic tool choices and cloud-native design patterns that reduce operational risk. Known as a “keeper of the flame,” he pairs product-grade engineering rigor with the ability to translate complex market requirements into auditable, high-throughput systems. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of trading-domain knowledge, open-source contributions, and engineering management experience at firms from startups to Google.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, Computer Science, BS/MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
zeromq10
user-authentication10
authentication10
java10
security10
javas10
gssapi10
go10
fixprotocol10
golang10
cprogramming-language10
finance9
financial-markets8
financial-data8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
quickfixgo/quickfix
Nov 2012 - Sep 2020
The Go FIX Protocol Library :rocket:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 319 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to implementing subpackages and basic interfaces within the Go FIX Protocol Library, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the library. The commits include changes to the message/basic package, suggesting work on the foundational building blocks of FIX message handling. The user was involved in parsing and building messages, including setting header and body fields. This suggests that user was involved in implementing functionalities related to the library's ability to construct and handle messages based on the FIX protocol.
fixprotocolprotocolsecfinancial-marketsfinance
zeromq/jzmq
Nov 2013 - Jul 2014
Java binding for ZeroMQ
Role in this project:Back-end Security Engineer
Back-end Security EngineerContributions:15 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the security features of the Java binding for ZeroMQ (jzmq) by implementing and refining the ZAuth module. Their work included adding support for authentication mechanisms, specifically integrating the GSSAPI and NULL mechanism. They also exposed and configured security options to provide a more secure environment, alongside bug fixes.
javazeromqbinding
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