Gavin Chan
Vice President, Trading Systems Developer at Galaxy Digital UK Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Chan is a seasoned low-latency systems engineer and trading technology leader with over two decades of C/C++ experience and more than a decade in senior roles across London and Asia. Currently VP, Trading Systems Developer at Galaxy Digital, he designs high-performance matching engines and market-making applications in C++23 and Java for crypto and traditional markets. Gavin has deep, practical knowledge of Asian exchange interfaces (HKEX, ASX, KRX, SGX, NSE, TWSE/TFEX) and a track record tuning ultra-low-latency platforms on Linux. He has built and led development teams from startup to institutional settings and contributes to open-source tooling for market data feeds, including backend fixes and security updates for a BitMEX-parsing crypto exchange project. Comfortable bridging trading domain knowledge with hands-on engineering, he combines rigorous CS training with pragmatic, production-first delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
SPCCThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
55reputation
19kreached
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Github Skills (15)
stock-data10
market-prices10
python10
price-data10
yaml7
kdb6
linux6
bash6
gnu-make6
jupyterlab6
github6
gnu6
sqlalchemy5
databases4
database4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BitcoinExchangeFH/BitcoinExchangeFH
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Cryptocurrency exchange market data feed handler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 499 commits, 75 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the backend logic of the cryptocurrency exchange data feed handler. Their work included fixing issues related to parsing data from the BitMEX exchange, specifically handling instrument mapping and timestamp conversions. They also addressed a vulnerability by upgrading a Python dependency and made several updates to the project's build configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented crucial corrections to the order book data handling.
exchangecoinbasehuobibitfinexbtcc
gavincyi/gavincyi.github.io
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
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Contributions:3 PRs, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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