Paul Becotte
Senior Software Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Becotte is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable distributed systems and self-healing infrastructure from trading firms to fintech. He has led SRE/DevOps and principal engineering efforts at MarketAxess and Citadel Securities and now applies that operational rigor to complex architectures at Balyasny Asset Management. Paul emphasizes team and process design as much as code, pairing automated testing and CI/CD with pragmatic leadership to drive reliability at scale. His background spans embedded systems, high-performance Python web services, and machine-learning-powered content platforms, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and cloud-native orchestration. A former USAF technical sergeant, he brings disciplined process improvement and hands-on mentoring to fast-paced engineering environments. Based in New York, he couples an MBA in finance with deep technical chops to align engineering outcomes with business risk and performance goals.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology, Associate of Science (AS), Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology at Associate of Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology (Community College of the Air Force)Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General at Strayer UniversityEngineering, Engineering at Villanova University
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Github contributions (5)
pbecotte/devblog
Aug 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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pbecotte/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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