Rick Sin
Physicist at Roofr
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRick Sin is a physicist-turned-software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and product prototypes in Silicon Valley. Based in Mountain View, he currently applies scientific rigor to product and platform work at Roofr after earlier roles ranging from SharePoint integration and Rails development to co-founding a seven-person startup that built a personal website search engine. He contributed notable open-source work to the popular python-binance library, adding futures coin trading endpoints and transfer-history APIs used in automated trading. Rick combines formal training in astrophysics from the University of Waterloo with practical engineering habits—specification-driven design, unit testing, and ERD-first database modeling—to deliver reliable systems. He’s comfortable shipping MVPs solo, leading small teams, and translating complex domain knowledge into production-ready APIs.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Science, Completion of grade 12, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Science, Completion of grade 12 at Ridgeway Crystal Beach High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Astrophysics at University of Waterloo
Korean, English, French
Stackoverflow
15reputation
2kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (17)
python10
api-design10
binance10
api10
trading9
futures9
apim9
future9
cryptocurrency9
indexof6
react6
foreign-keys6
m3u6
http-live-streaming6
django6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sammchardy/python-binance
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Binance Exchange API python implementation for automated trading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 14 reviews, 40 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick's primary contributions involve enhancing the `python-binance` library, likely for interacting with the Binance exchange API. They introduced new API endpoints for futures coin trading, expanding the library's capabilities. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase with new API functionalities like transfer history and various API calls associated with the Binance futures trading platform.
apipythonwebsocketstrading-botautomated-trading
kimchirichie/leafii_bravo
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:210 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
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