I'm a CS + BBA student at Waterloo/Laurier interested in software engineering, trading systems, distributed systems, and quantitative finance.
Recently, I've worked on market data and order book infrastructure at BitGo and distributed compliance systems at Shopify
- I love building software, whether itโs production systems, developer tools, trading infrastructure, or random side projects that start from a new idea
- Completed 5 software/engineering internships across fintech, trading systems, e-commerce, AI/ML, and full-stack product development
- Constantly building side projects to explore ideas in automation, finance, AI, and systems engineering
- Exploring quantitative trading through strategy research, hypothesis testing, backtesting, and performance analysis across short-term and systematic approaches
FinLake โ Large-scale financial data pipeline and agentic trading platform using Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, FastAPI, and LangGraph.
TraceQL โ CLI tool that builds compact repo graphs to help AI coding agents understand large codebases with fewer tokens.
OptiCode โ macOS clipboard and secrets manager with global shortcuts, persistent slots, and a background menu-bar style agent.
- BitGo: Real-time market data, WebSockets, L2 order books, Redis, trading systems
- Shopify: Distributed systems, compliance workflows, GraphQL, Ruby, React
- Website: aryanpatel.dev
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aryanpatel05
- GitHub: github.com/aryanp05


