Ethan Barker is a Software Engineer III based in Portland, Oregon, with a decade of hands-on experience building low-latency, distributed systems and production microservices. Now at ZipRecruiter working on marketplace optimization, he previously optimized nanosecond-sensitive market-data paths and recovery for real-time trading at Citadel Securities and built C++ data-ingest microservices and cloud deployments at Belvedere Trading. Comfortable across systems-level C++, Python, Kubernetes, gRPC/Protobuf, and Elixir/Phoenix, he combines strong algorithmic instincts with practical engineering for resilient, high-throughput pipelines. As a junior CS student at Oregon State, he’s already shipped production tooling to analyze terabytes of packet captures and automated scalable developer workflows, showing an uncommon blend of academic pursuit and real-world trading systems experience.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
Animal race track simulator with a focus on clear, readable, and pythonic code
Contributions:12 PRs, 54 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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Ethan Barker - Software Enginner III at ZipRecruiter