David Cortés
Chief Technology Officer at Bax
Mexico City
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Top SchoolDavid Cortés is a CTO and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building trading systems, market-making strategies, and research-grade robotics software. Based in Mexico City, he combines deep academic training in mathematics and robotics with hands-on experience in Python, Clojure, and C++ to deliver resilient, low-latency systems for crypto and finance. He progressed from mobile-robotics research at McGill—authoring papers and building localization systems—to co-founding a blockchain consultancy that advised on climate-policy blockchain use cases. Known for systems thinking and rapid language fluency, he turned functional programming into a core strength while shipping widely used trading strategies at Sixtant. As CTO at Bax he now bridges research, engineering and product to scale trading infrastructure in fast-moving markets.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaPhD Candidate, Computer Sciences, Robotics, PhD Candidate, Computer Sciences, Robotics at McGill University
Spanish, English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
anqixu/ftag2
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:70 commits in 1 year 4 months
dacocp/clj-grad
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
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