Martin Kou
Summary
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RockstarMan Kou is a seasoned engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building and scaling developer-first crypto infrastructure and quant trading systems from San Jose. As Co-Founder and CTO of CoinAlpha and creator of the open-source Hummingbot project, he led engineering growth from zero to 40+ engineers and helped enable $100M–$500M in daily trading volume across exchanges. He blends hands-on backend engineering (notably core contributions to Hummingbot’s market connectors) with participative leadership that cultivates transparency and empowers teams to propose technical direction. Prior roles include senior engineering and prototyping work at Apple on iWork collaboration features and early startup exits and open-source contributions dating back to CKEditor and mobile apps with 1M+ users. He also runs quantitative strategies and a crypto fund, demonstrating an uncommon mix of product, protocol, and trading expertise.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
python10
cython10
trading9
back-end-development9
api8
apim8
data-structure7
data-structures7
version-control7
git7
cryptocurrency7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hummingbot/hummingbot
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Open source software that helps you create and deploy high-frequency crypto trading bots
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 1072 commits, 404 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin's commits focused on modifying the Huobi market Cython code, specifically relating to default value updates and modifications in the Huobi market. The user's work also extended to the core codebase, with merges from the 'development' branch and involvement in feature documentation. The contributions appear to be related to the core functionality and structure of the hummingbot platform.
cryptotrading-botarbitragetradingpython
tudorelu/hummingbot
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Hummingbot: a client for crypto market making
Contributions:10 commits in 2 months
crypto
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