Summary
Miles Sherman is a fintech engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building ultra-low-latency trading systems and crypto market-making platforms. Trained as an electrical engineer (M.S., Columbia), he spent five years in equity HFT developing FPGA and low-latency C++ systems before pivoting to crypto, where he achieved a 5% market share on Coinbase as an independent trader. As CTO and later Co-Founder at Lonk and Wingspan Trading, he’s designed globally distributed liquidity platforms and led small, highly productive engineering teams across C++, Python, Verilog, networking, and Linux ops. He combines deep market-microstructure intuition with hands-on system architecture and FPGA experience, uniquely bridging hardware-level design and distributed software for high-throughput finance. Based in New York, he focuses on building infrastructure for the token economy and decentralized finance while scaling reliable, low-latency execution.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Mann School
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, Bachelor of Arts, Physics at Occidental College
M.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at Columbia University