Evan Wies
Founder at Neomantra
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Wies is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of experience building financial technology products and leading algorithmic trading and game development teams. With an MEng and dual BS degrees from MIT in EECS and Brain & Cognitive Science, he blends deep systems-level engineering — from real-time haptics and device drivers at MIT and Immersion to high-performance C++ and Docker automation on GitHub — with product-focused execution. As CTO at a hedge fund he developed risk, execution, and algorithmic trading systems, and now runs Neomantra delivering fintech products and consulting from Greenwich, CT. His open-source contributions include improving build and CI/CD automation for the widely used openresty/docker-openresty project and hardening the FIX8 C++ FIX framework, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2xBS 1xMEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brain and Cognitive Science, 2xBS 1xMEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brain and Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHarvard-Westlake School
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Github Skills (31)
debug10
docker10
c-language10
bash10
openresty10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
exception-handling10
fixprotocol10
automations10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
compiler-compiler9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
openresty/docker-openresty
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Docker tooling for OpenResty
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 235 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the Docker images of OpenResty. Their contributions included setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline using Travis CI, creating and modifying scripts for building, tagging, and pushing Docker images, as well as managing Docker manifest creation. The user also worked on restructuring the build process to improve efficiency and error handling within the build scripts. Their work involved building images for multiple operating system flavors.
dockeropenrestytooling
fix8/fix8
Jul 2013 - Dec 2015
Modern open source C++ FIX framework featuring complete schema customisation, high performance and fast development.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability and robustness of the FIX8 framework. Their commits addressed compiler warnings and errors related to virtual destructors, overloaded virtual functions, and C++11 features. They also included dependent headers to fix compiler errors and added exception handling. Additionally, the user made modifications to the compiler and utilities to handle potential errors.
fixcppberkeley-dbosxcustomisation
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