Summary
Phoebus Mak is a pragmatic software engineer with six years' experience building low-latency, production-grade systems across finance and industrial automation, now contributing to ArcticDB at Man Group in London. He has a strong C++ foundation complemented by Python, MQ and distributed caching expertise, proven by introducing a distributed cache to legacy trade enrichment flows that dramatically reduced DB load. Phoebus has designed lock-free, multithreaded market connectivity and order-matching components for trading venues and led full lifecycle development of high-speed control software for automation machinery. Comfortable working across locations with product and support teams, he balances performance-driven engineering with clear design and maintainability improvements. A background in motion-capture research and hands-on customer collaboration hints at a pragmatic, user-aware approach to solving complex, real-time problems.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)