Sam A.

Software Engineer at Coinbase

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Coinbase
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Quantitative Developer (Fixed-income) at Squarepoint
    Jun 2024 - Apr 2025 · 11 mos

    Improve observability, testing, performance and organisation of financial modelling codebase. – Enhanced monitoring by introducing more tests with mocked data, and by improving the range of instruments covered, ensuring timely alerts for data generation failures, reducing downtime and lost trading opportunities. – Investigated performances issues in library, speeding up specific use-case three-fold. – Cleaned up 1000-file codebase: tested, improved and fixed 100 applications; merged various scripts together without impacting system stability.

  • Engineer at Mind AI
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2021 · 3 mos

    Primary task: improve test coverage and testing infrastructure for AI codebase. – Improved performance of Docker CI pipeline four-fold, leading to faster development. Improved test case coverage by 11%, developed multiple test fixtures. – Developed stress testing tool by spinning up thousands of simultaneous connections. Uncovered critical bugs within the system.