Backend & Automation Engineer — Trading Systems (Freelance)

May 1, 2024 | Present

Role Overview

Working independently, I design and ship low-latency trading systems and automation end-to-end — from architecture and infrastructure to deployment and the on-call debugging when something is slow at 3am. The work is backend-first: streaming data, latency budgets, caching, node infrastructure, and the integrations that hold it together.

Freelance — automation for dozens of clients

Most of my recent work is freelance, helping clients automate the boring, repetitive work out of their operations and build the profitable kind of automation on top of it.

  • Money-making strategies: copy-trading, sniping, and custom strategies built to clients' specs — each one a small backend that runs unattended.
  • Solana node infrastructure: I provision, configure, and tune dedicated Solana nodes for low-latency reads/writes, rather than relying on shared public RPCs.
  • Linux & ops: everything runs on Linux boxes I set up and maintain — process supervision, logging/monitoring, shell scripting, reverse proxying, and keeping services alive 24/7.
  • Reliability: clients hand me a manual, error-prone process and get back a system that just works while they sleep.

PHINIX — Low-Latency Solana Trading Engine

I built PHINIX from A to Z, alone — architecture, backend, and infra.

  • Latency-first design: streams market data over gRPC from dedicated Solana nodes and caches hot state in Redis, so the bot can act on new tokens before the rest of the market.
  • Execution: sniping, copy-trading, and real-time PnL, with customizable fee strategies (e.g. Jito tips) per trade.
  • Ownership: I chose the stack, designed the caching and streaming layers, and ran it in production.

Chainge Finance — Multi-Chain Swap Bot

Backend for a Telegram trading bot spanning five networks for Chainge Finance, a leader in cross-chain swaps.

  • NestJS backend with Ethers.js and Solana Web3.
  • Routes swaps through KyberSwap and Jupiter; handles wallet creation, deposits, cross-chain bridging, sniping, and a gem finder.
  • Integrated Helius and Moralis nodes for reliable, low-latency reads.

How I work

  • Backend & automation first — queues, caching, streaming, and the latency budget are where I spend my time.
  • End-to-end ownership — I'm comfortable owning a system from design through production and incident response.
  • Web3 when it helps — I write Solidity and integrate chains, but I treat them as one more backend integration, not the whole job.

Technologies Used

  • Node / TypeScript, NestJS
  • gRPC, Redis, dedicated Solana nodes
  • Linux, shell scripting, monitoring, Nginx
  • Solana Web3, Ethers.js
  • KyberSwap, Jupiter, Helius, Moralis, Jito
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