gar2000b
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SeniorGary Black is a founder and principal software engineer with 11 years of focused experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems and AI-enhanced time-series platforms. He built and led Digilogue’s Project Discovery and current Project IDP—turn-key platforms for algorithm discovery, time-series trading, and single-click deployments—combining production-grade engineering with generative AI for algorithmic assistance. Gary has a strong track record modernizing core banking at major institutions (RBC, President’s Choice Financial), implementing event-driven, Kafka-based architectures and cloud hybrid migrations at scale. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computer Science with Big Data (Distinction) and pairs academic depth with hands-on infrastructure experience from commodity data centers to PaaS/CaaS deployments. Notably, his work bridges research (evolutionary algorithms, ML for trading) and operational excellence, having driven profitable live services and built bespoke tooling for monitoring, CI/CD and test harnesses. Based in Old Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with enterprise-grade reliability and a penchant for turning exploratory R&D into production revenue.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gar2000b/algorithms
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Algorithms, Dynamic Data Structures and ADTs in Java
Contributions:61 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
datastructuredynamic-datajavadata-structuresadts
gar2000b/vending-machine
May 2015 - Feb 2020
vending-machine (java)
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
javavending-machine
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