Summary
David Traina is a Senior Software Engineer and quantitative technologist with 7 years of experience building high-performance, mission-critical systems for trading, analytics, and ML platforms. He has delivered distributed data infrastructure and real-time systems at Radix Trading, Wayve, Redfin, and AWS, frequently focusing on reliability, observability, and automation. Proficient in Python, Java, C++, Bash, and SQL, he pairs systems engineering depth with platform and DevOps practices like Kubernetes, Argo CD, Prometheus, and CI/CD. He’s built HFT stacks and OLAP/data-platform components alike, blending low-latency engineering with scalable analytics. Based in Chicago and educated in Mathematics and Computer Science, he enjoys learning functional languages and brings a pragmatic curiosity that surfaces in cross-stack optimizations. As a bonus, he asks contacts to share their favorite number and why—an indicator of his playful, data-minded approach to networking.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin
Honours Bachelor of Science HBSc (BS) , Mathematics and Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science HBSc (BS) , Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Toronto