Kurt Siegfried
Engineering at Striker Labs
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Siegfried is an experienced software engineer with 14 years building low-latency, real-time systems across algorithmic trading, infrastructure, and data engineering. He has driven production-grade solutions at trading firms including IMC, Old Mission, and Balyasny Asset Management, and more recently focused on latency optimization roles before joining Striker Labs. Comfortable bridging hands-on systems programming and project leadership, he repeatedly tackles difficult networking and performance problems while coaching teams to deliver. His background spans consulting and product-focused engineering, giving him a pragmatic eye for operational reliability and cross-functional delivery. Based in Denver, he brings uncommon depth in both algorithmic trading environments and network/infrastructure engineering, enabling fast, resilient systems under strict latency constraints.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at North Central CollegePolitical Science, Political Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (7)
exchange-web-services6
amazon-ec26
qt6
exchange-server6
soap6
cryptography6
webservice6
Github contributions (4)
CSC495/SVDP
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:93 commits in 2 months
code-repositoryproductioncanonicaldeployed
kurtsiegfried/validator-firewall
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
A low level ingress firewall for Solana validators
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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