Stas Pochynok
Self-Employed at e1lab | Investments
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStas Pochynok is a data-driven software engineer transitioning into finance, combining eight years of experience building scalable backend systems with an MBA in Finance from HEC Paris. He has delivered production-grade integrations and performance optimizations at companies like SoundHound and Manulife, and architected resilient cloud services that handled 50x load surges and streamlined POS onboarding. Proficient in Python (Pandas, NumPy, Backtrader), C++, Java, Kafka and quantitative tools like R and Matlab, he builds investment strategies, backtests them, and runs data pipelines end-to-end. As a self-employed founder of e1lab, he’s applying his algorithm development and financial analysis skills to practical investment solutions. Notably, he blends low-level performance tuning with finance-savvy modeling—able to trace a billing bug in Kafka systems one week and design a backtesting pipeline the next. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to research-driven finance initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, AI, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, AI at University of TorontoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance at HEC Paris
English, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (4)
happy10
code-search8
javascript8
search-engine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pochyn/IntroductionToComputerProgramming
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
pochyn/IntroductionToComputerScience
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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