Summary
Hamed Nikzad is a Senior Backend Developer based in Linz, Austria, with an MSc in Computer Engineering and over a decade of hands-on experience building low-latency trading and distributed systems. He has led engineering teams and founded an algorithmic trading department that grew execution algorithms to handle 40% of brokerage volume and 30,000 order commands per day, plus market-making across six exchanges. Proficient across C#/.NET, Go, Java, Python and actor-model tooling like Akka.NET, he designs event-driven, CQRS/DDD architectures and scalable data pipelines using Kafka, NATS, and gRPC. He pairs full-stack skills (Vue/Angular) and Web3 knowledge with quantitative trading expertise, having shipped numerous execution bots and trading platforms. Comfortable in DevOps and cloud-native environments (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD), he also built IoT and market-analytics products, showing a rare blend of trading-domain depth and broad systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Master of Science (MS) Computer Hardware Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Hardware Engineering at Science and Research Branch