Patrick Trasborg
Senior Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Trasborg is a Senior Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems across fintech and consumer tech, currently driving engineering work at Balyasny Asset Management after several progressive roles at Peloton and Jet. He brings a strong full-stack foundation from early front-end roles at J.P. Morgan to senior staff engineering responsibilities, shipping production services and improving error handling and data pipelines. Patrick’s open-source contributions include developing a Google Trends API layer that parses and surfaces trend data programmatically, reflecting a practical knack for scraping, parsing, and resilient API design. His background is unusually deep in engineering fundamentals for software: a PhD and MS in Structural Engineering from Lehigh, which informs a methodical, data-driven approach to designing maintainable systems. Colleagues value him for translating complex requirements into robust implementations and for combining academic rigor with hands-on software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Structural Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Structural Engineering at Lehigh University
Github Skills (7)
cheerio10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
html-parsing10
apidoc10
json9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pat310/google-trends-api
Feb 2016 - Dec 2020
An API layer on top of google trends
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 322 commits, 97 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on developing and implementing the core logic for the Google Trends API. They implemented tools to access and parse data from Google Trends, creating functionalities such as retrieving top related searches and hot trends. Their work involved using request-promise and cheerio to parse HTML, adding features like the ability to choose a country for the search and improving error handling.
apigoogle-apitrendson-topgoogle-trends
christianevans214/Breezeblocks
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:123 commits, 64 PRs, 90 pushes in 2 months
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