First hire. Responsible for the backend servers, applications, infrastructure, CI/CD, devops, devx, data, security, 3rd party integrations, internal analysis+tooling, unit+integration testing, performance, and monitoring.
Using tech like typescript, redis, postgres, prisma, docker, docker-compose, express, python, and AWS.
As the universe of listed options grows into the tens of millions, with new exchanges being added at an ever increasing rate, the options market demands highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems for calculations like pricing and volatility.
To that end, I am currently spending my time developing low-latency infrastructure services as well as working on a clustered in-memory database to handle the millions of updates per second that is required to maintain a snapshot of the options universe in real time.