Will Dolan
Senior Backend Engineer at Financial Technology Partners / FT Partners
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Dolan is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building automation and data infrastructure for financial services, currently shaping FT Partners' backend and AWS ecosystem to support synchronous web servers and asynchronous workloads. He has a track record of creating mission-critical trading and position-management systems—previously authoring a large-scale linear optimization engine and real-time position platform for major investment banks. As founder of Updraft Financial he prototyped and shipped a platform for building and deploying stock trading algorithms with notification pipelines, blending product instincts with hands-on engineering. Comfortable across backend services, data pipelines, and infrastructure, he favors pragmatic solutions that turn CRM and intranet data into analyzable, auditable assets. Notably, his early work at Tufts combined hardware, microcontrollers, and webapps to instrument learning environments, reflecting a knack for bridging physical systems and software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Economics, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Economics, Computer Science at Tufts UniversitySan Francisco University High School
German
Github Skills (21)
trading-algorithms10
python10
trading10
finance10
backtesting10
trading-bot10
trading-systems10
cryptocurrency10
metaclass10
backtesting-trading-strategies10
algorithmic-trading10
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
stock-data4
sdk3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dolanwill/dolanwill.github.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
JumbosMakerNetwork/RFID_Network
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:92 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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