James Nakashian
Senior Software Engineer at Datavant
Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Nakashian is a Senior/Staff software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, high-scale systems and cloud-native solutions across Java, Python, TypeScript, and SQL. He has a track record of cutting processing times and database load—most notably reducing bulk trade generation from 6 hours to 20 minutes and achieving up to 90% faster API responses through streaming, caching, and parallelization. James leads cross-functional teams in Agile environments, establishes API and integration standards, and mentors engineers while driving measurable operational improvements. He’s comfortable across the stack from React UIs and Selenium test suites to AWS streaming and Keycloak-based multi-tenancy. A fast learner with a 3.8 CS degree from RPI, he’s actively curious about AI/ML and brings a pragmatic blend of performance optimization and product-minded engineering. Based in Peabody, MA, he favors collaborative problem-solving that aligns technical work with business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, 3.97/4.0, High School, 3.97/4.0 at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School
English
Github Skills (4)
trading3
python2
finance2
trading-bot2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jmorgancusick/currencyhft
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
SD&D project for high frequency trading
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pythontrading-bottradinghigh-frequencyfrequency-trading
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