Zac Rubin
Automated Trading Systems Developer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Rubin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends a mechatronics honours background with a strong focus on low-latency, data-driven trading systems. Based in Cape Town, he builds high-performance backend infrastructure and arbitrage bots in Python, C#, and Rust, integrating exchange APIs and millisecond-level execution across centralized and decentralized markets. Zac has a track record of refactoring complex engines to squeeze out performance, implementing derivatives-focused trading logic, and shipping production data pipelines and dashboards from his earlier data science work. Easy-going and collaborative, he pairs hands-on engineering with analytical rigor—an unusual combination that lets him jump between control-systems thinking and high-frequency trading challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Honours, Mechatronics Engineering, Honours, Mechatronics Engineering at University of Cape TownNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at United Herzlia Schools
Github Skills (37)
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aws-s39
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
z-0/presentation-first-steps-as-a-devops-engineer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 11 months
z-0/Q-ArmouryServer
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:51 pushes, 2 branches in 17 days
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