Mike Van Rossum
Singapore
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Top SchoolMike Van Rossum is a founder and technology leader with 14 years of experience building low-latency trading systems, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain solutions from Amsterdam to Singapore. He runs Folkvang, a quant HFT prop shop focused on crypto markets, and leads Freyja, helping clients architect cloud and ultra-low-latency systems for modern finance. A hands-on engineer from Node.js trading bots to enterprise blockchain projects at ING, he has a track record of shipping production trading and data-management features (notably enhancements to the popular Gekko Bitcoin trading bot). His background spans systems architecture, backend engineering and product-facing development, giving him a rare mix of quant trading instincts and practical engineering discipline. Known for treating market chaos as opportunity, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep, production-proven expertise in market data and execution infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor, Communication & Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesIT Management, IT Management at Koning Willem 1 College
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Github Skills (8)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
javascript10
nodejs10
cryptocurrencies10
back-end-development10
excel6
vba6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
askmike/gekko
May 2013 - Feb 2020
A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1757 commits, 663 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike made several contributions to the Gekko Bitcoin trading bot. They focused on enhancing the platform by adding functionality for new USDT markets at Poloniex and implementing date range scanning to track local data. The user was also involved in refining the data import process and making it run properly within the new framework. These contributions show a focus on improving market data functionality and data management within the trading platform.
market-makerexchangetrading-botbottrading
askmike/poloniex.js
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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