estebgonza
Senior Engineer | De Fi & Market Making Systems
French senior engineer with 8+ years building high-performance systems. Started in distributed databases (4 years scaling billion-row analytical engines), then pivoted to crypto trading infrastructure in 2021. Now focused on DeFi and algorithmic trading: managing $350K+ AUM with 25% all-time yield through non-directional strategies, and operating as a Polymarket Builder with $10M+ lifetime volume in prediction market making. Deep expertise in low-latency systems, market microstructure, and on-chain protocols.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $180,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇫🇷 France
Residency: 🇨🇠Switzerland
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
RA2Tech (ra2.capital / smardex.io) 2023 - 2025
Joined DeFi team building indexers, validators, and liquidation bots for on-chain protocols. Transitioned to algorithmic trading team, designing market making strategies. Developed custom low-latency trading library with backtesting and observability tooling. Built data analysis pipelines for real-time market monitoring and strategy research.
Software Engineer (Freelance)
French Tax Administration (DGFIP) 2022 - 2023
Lead developer in 5-person team building state-grade web application on private cloud. Defined architecture, recruited team via contractors, delivered project in 8 months. Implemented full-stack solution using TypeScript, Node.js, and Vue 3.
Co-Founder
Achilio 2022 - 2022
Co-founded SaaS startup to accelerate queries on cloud data providers (BigQuery). Raised $50K pre-seed with accelerator backing from Hook.vc.
Software Engineer
Indexima 2017 - 2021
Early engineer at seed-stage startup that raised several million dollars. Built distributed SQL engine handling billions of rows with custom hashmap implementations. Worked on on-premise and cloud deployments, performance optimization, high availability. Core development in Java and Go for analytical database engine.
Backend Engineer (Intern)
Daneel.io 2016 - 2017
Built backend systems for crypto startup during ICO, incubated at engineering school.
Skills
aws
backend
devops
finance
grafana
graphql
infrastructure
javascript
node
open-source
quantitative-trader
solidity
trader
typescript
web3
english
french