Summary
Jordan Nolan is a Software Architect and Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience designing high-performance, event-driven systems across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. Specializing in Rust and a repertoire of functional and systems languages (F#, OCaml, Scala, C++), he architects microservices, event-sourced platforms, and actor-model solutions for trading and order construction. He has led trading systems architecture at firms like AlphaSimplex, PanAgora, and LAB Quantitative Strategies and currently focuses on Rust-based architectures in New York. His toolkit spans cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure), messaging and streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), gRPC/Protobuf stacks, and databases optimized for event-driven workloads. Known for blending polyglot functional programming with practical production ops, he often applies advanced patterns like CQRS and Dapr to reduce latency and improve resiliency in mission-critical trading systems. An engineer who moves between low-level performance tuning and high-level architectural strategy, he brings uncommon cross-domain depth from biomedical labs to institutional trading.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer