Providence Salumu
Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarProvidence Salumu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with eight years of professional experience building high-performance systems across finance, networking, and cybersecurity. Currently at CrowdStrike after a long tenure at Morgan Stanley where they advanced to Senior Vice President of Engineering, Providence combines hands-on C++ and Python expertise with a history of designing connectivity and order management components for major exchanges. Their background spans low-latency trading systems, network simulation and mobility research (including NS3 and Mobile IPv6 work), and production-grade backend services—demonstrating comfort across Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments. Known for applying design patterns, test-driven development, and pragmatic OOP, they bridge research-level protocol work and enterprise software delivery. Colleagues describe them as a technical problem-solver who thrives on translating complex protocols and performance constraints into reliable, maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Swahili
Github Skills (5)
embedded9
programming-language8
jit8
interpreter8
compiler7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
morganstanley/hobbes
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
A language and an embedded JIT compiler
Contributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 6 months
jithaskell-applicationcompilerjit-compilerembedded
smunix/hobbes
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
A language and an embedded JIT compiler
Contributions:2 pushes in 19 days
jitcompilerjit-compilerembeddedprogramming-language
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