Summary
Greg Mitchell is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building low-latency, high-frequency trading systems and real-time infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Malbec Labs from Charleston, SC. He blends deep C++ and Python expertise with Linux systems, networking and database optimization to deliver production trading platforms, market data feeds, and low-latency execution services. Greg has repeatedly led small teams to ship robust, performance-tuned systems—designing matching engines, feed handlers and strategy libraries that junior developers and traders can use. He pairs technical leadership with customer-facing work and a track record of driving down latency and operational cost, including significant PostgreSQL tuning and cloud cost optimizations. Notably, his career spans both proprietary trading firms and product-focused companies, giving him a rare mix of research-grade quantitative tooling and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute