Gareth Macleod
Head Of Engineering at Invert
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Macleod is a Head of Engineering and founder with nearly a decade of professional experience building high-scale financial and security systems. He founded and scaled Tinker to profitability and $1B in GMV, led payments engineering at TrueNorth where his backend work helped secure Series B funding, and built core security services at Facebook that have remained in production for a decade. Now leading engineering at Invert after serving as Chief of Technical Staff and as a fractional CTO, he blends hands‑on backend engineering with strategic technical leadership. His open-source contributions include preparing a battle-tested crypto trading framework for release, reflecting a pragmatic focus on testability and production readiness. Based in Toronto with roots in Waterloo and a Computer Science background from the University of Waterloo and YC experience, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering rigor. Notably, he moves fluidly between founding teams and scaling organisations, prioritizing resilient payments and trading infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
S14, S14 at Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
python10
testing10
algorithmic-trading9
cryptocurrencies8
documentation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garethdmm/gryphon
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Powerful, proven, and extensible framework for building trading strategies at any frequency, with a focus on crypto currencies. Battle-tested with billions traded.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 38 PRs, 67 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the codebase related to testing, including test imports and locations. They also made changes to the core framework by modifying the package name, updating version numbers, and adding initial documentation. Their contributions suggest a focus on preparing the project for launch by organizing tests and refining core components.
currenciesbacktesting-trading-strategiescrypto-currenciesfinancealgorithmic-trading
garethdmm/atlas
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Machine learning workflow for use with the Gryphon Framework based on Tensorflow
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
dataminingmachine-learning-workflowmlmachine-learningtensorflow
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