Edwin Steele
Trading Systems Engineer at IMC Trading
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Steele is a trading systems engineer and seasoned technology leader with 14+ years delivering low-latency capital markets infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps at firms including IMC Trading and Optiver. He combines hands-on systems and release engineering experience with people leadership up to lead-of-leads, consistently driving reliable deployments in high-pressure trading environments. His background in mathematics and computer science underpins a pragmatic approach to performance-sensitive systems and observability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved popular static-site tooling (Nikola) and media gallery tooling (Sigal), focusing on front-end optimizations and metadata handling that reflect a detail-oriented, UX-aware mindset. Based in Sydney, he’s known for translating complex trading requirements into maintainable, low-latency solutions while mentoring teams through rapid change.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
javascript10
python10
static-site10
static-site-generator10
image-processing9
jinja29
front-end-development9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
markdown-it8
markdown8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
getnikola/nikola
Jan 2013 - Mar 2018
A static website and blog generator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Edwin contributed to the Nikola static website generator by implementing a new directive for embedding Vimeo videos, incorporating a new plugin for this feature. They also merged changes from the upstream master branch and optimized the project by making use of the USE_CDN setting to utilize CDNs for loading Javascript and CSS. Furthermore, the user updated the Bootstrap version and set the output format to HTML5, suggesting front-end and build/configuration involvement.
pythonstatic-siteblog-generatorjavascriptmarkdown
saimn/sigal
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
yet another simple static gallery generator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Edwin contributed significantly to the `sigal` project, a static gallery generator. They primarily focused on enhancing the Galleria theme, refactoring templates, and integrating features like IPTC data extraction for image metadata. Key improvements included deferring JavaScript loading, refining video support, and optimizing thumbnail loading. The user also addressed several bugs and improved the overall user experience through design and code refactoring.
pythongalleriayet-anothergallerystatic-site-generator
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