Nayef Copty
Managing Partner at Muwazana | موازنة
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNayef Copty is a seasoned software engineer and managing partner with 14 years of experience building low-latency trading systems and scalable infrastructure across top-tier firms. He progressed from founding a hosting company as a teen to engineering roles at AppNexus and HRT, then focused on electronic trading software at Citadel and quantitative trading at GSR before launching Muwazana. Based in New York, he blends systems-level development, quantitative trading insight, and entrepreneurial leadership to deliver robust, high-performance solutions. His background in research and teaching at Virginia Tech underscores a strong foundation in computer science and a knack for mentoring and practical innovation. Notably, his career arc reflects rare dual fluency in production systems engineering and market-facing quantitative strategies.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma IB Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma IB Diploma at Amman Baccalaureate SchoolB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (85)
melpa10
keyword10
autoload10
unix9
emacs-lsp9
emacs9
cli9
elisp9
bash9
vim9
command-line-tool9
filesystem9
fzf9
hardware9
assembler9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nayefc/mips-simulator
Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
nayefc/Stack
Aug 2012 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 years
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