Paxtan Laker
Central Risk Distributed Systems Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPaxtan Laker is a distributed systems and risk-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems at Citadel after formative engineering roles at Apple and NASA JPL. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate and early contributor to the ISAACS drone platform, he blends low-level sensing, AR/VR and HCI expertise with high-throughput trading and central risk infrastructure. He’s shipped mobile and embedded AR tools for utility visualization, led nuclear-scanning and HAB telemetry projects in academic research, and later applied that systems rigor to commodities trading and centralized risk platforms. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of hardware-aware software design and large-scale, latency-sensitive system engineering that helps bridge experimental prototypes and mission-critical production services.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (6)
over-the-air9
oculus8
simulation7
robotics7
twist6
perception5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lakerpaxtan/NarbacularPerspectives
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
An interesting twist on portals and perspective in VR -- CS 184 Final Project -- Davis, Laker, Nguyen
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
portalsdavisinterestingperspectivetwist
lakerpaxtan/RLE-Delta-VariableLengthBinary-Compression
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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