locar@locar

I’m a senior C++ systems engineer with over 15 years of experience building high-performance, real-time, and distributed systems in production-critical environments.

My background is rooted in performance-sensitive engineering: concurrency, networking, determinism, and reliability. Over the years, I’ve worked on large-scale systems in energy, aerospace, and industrial control, where low latency, fault tolerance, and correctness are essential.

Since 2017, my interest in electronic markets and trading infrastructure has grown steadily. What started as personal curiosity around Bitcoin and market structure evolved into hands-on engineering work. Today, I focus on designing and building trading systems such as matching engines, market data pipelines, and exchange-side infrastructure.

I enjoy working close to the core execution path, exploring architectural and performance trade-offs, and turning complex real-time problems into clean, maintainable systems. I’m particularly interested in trading, exchange, and HFT environments where engineering quality directly impacts outcomes.

Personal Projects  – Trading Systems: Flashstrike & Wirekrak — Ongoing

Designer and developer of experimental trading infrastructure in modern C++. 

Flashstrike is a high-performance matching engine focused on deterministic behavior, low-latency execution paths, order book design, and recovery mechanisms.

Wirekrak is a C++ SDK developed during the Kraken Forge Hackathon, providing real-time market data and trading access via WebSocket APIs, with a strong emphasis on streaming reliability, protocol handling, and clean architecture.