Samantha Tesla
Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group
Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Tesla is a Senior Software Engineer based in Crystal Lake, Illinois, with roughly two decades of professional experience delivering resilient, production-grade systems across finance and cloud platforms. Currently at DRW Trading Group since 2011, she brings deep hands-on expertise in backend architecture, API design, and mentoring engineering teams, backed by prior leadership roles at Engine Yard and GoGrid. Her background spans high-throughput trading infrastructure, cloud provisioning platforms, and performance-sensitive Ruby/Rails services, including designing multi-vendor provisioning and data interchange systems. Known for pragmatic adoption of agile practices and integrating open-source tooling into large codebases, she excels at turning complex legacy systems into maintainable, scalable solutions. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and quietly combines staff-level technical breadth with day-to-day developer craftsmanship.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Github Skills (37)
decoding10
encoding10
base5810
base3210
defaults8
parsing8
binding7
lua6
eve6
emacs6
crypto6
emacs-lisp6
python-bindings5
openssl5
java5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stesla/wsclient
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:53 commits in 2 months
stesla/telnet
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
a telnet library for go
Contributions:10 PRs, 50 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
golangtelnet
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