Summary
Ellen Choi is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 8 years building resilient backend systems across fintech and blockchain infrastructure. Currently at Moment she focuses on EMS for fixed income, translating complex trading workflows into production-grade services. Prior roles include founding engineer work on blockchain data pipelines at Coherent and ledger and financial hub engineering at Coinbase, reflecting deep domain experience in financial systems. She is skilled in Go, AWS, Postgres, Redis and CI optimization, and has repeatedly improved test coverage and reduced CI runtime in past roles. A University of Waterloo mechatronics graduate, she blends systems engineering rigor with pragmatic API and microservice design. Outside the obvious, she’s experienced in detaching external dependencies for fast, reliable tests—an operational habit that speeds delivery in production-critical finance apps.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Waterloo