I got obsessed early with how things work at the lowest level, taught myself to code, and fell into Solana and trading systems. For the last two years I've basically lived in the hardest parts of it, low-latency execution, fault-tolerant infrastructure, on-chain programs, the microseconds and failure modes most people avoid. In that time I built a Rust execution engine with single-digit-microsecond tick-to-trade, an indexer that ran over a year at 99.99% uptime, the execution layer a quant team ran live strategies on, and a CLMM that uses ~33% less compute, as well as 2 trading terminals having 300$mil combined volume.
I go deeper than almost anyone on the correctness-critical, performance-critical work, and I genuinely love it, so I move fast and don't cut corners on the things that actually break systems. I want to be one of the best in the world at fast, reliable trading infrastructure, and I'm going all in on it.
I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it...