Feras Salim
CTO at Legion Invest
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFeras Salim is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building high‑traffic e-commerce platforms, low‑latency ad systems, and machine learning pipelines. He combines hands‑on engineering with strategic architecture work—currently serving as CTO of Legion Invest and Principal Architect at Wunderkind while consulting through Creconnected. His background spans full‑stack and backend systems, real‑time bidding, and production ML/deep learning for startups, with practical contributions to open‑source tooling such as a Python code generator for the high‑performance Simple Binary Encoding project. Based in Toronto, he pairs product-minded technical leadership with a knack for optimizing performance and reliability at scale. Outside of work he explores quantitative finance, bringing a data-driven, experimental approach to engineering and business problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
International Business International Business/Trade/Commerce, International Business International Business/Trade/Commerce at Humber College
English, Bulgarian, French, Russian
Github Skills (10)
code-generation10
python10
encoder-decoder10
codec9
testing9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
javas8
java8
golang4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aeron-io/simple-binary-encoding
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Feras primarily contributed to the implementation of a Python code generator for the SBE (Simple Binary Encoding) project. Their work involved modifications to the Python generator, including fixing checkstyle issues, adding unit tests, and updating the readme file. Furthermore, the user updated the Python generator by splitting the encoder and decoder. These changes suggest a focus on code quality, testing, and feature development within the context of the Python code generation component.
golangsbecodecc-plus-plusbinary-encoding
feribg/audiogetter
Aug 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 5 months
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