Kaashif Hymabaccus

CTO

New York, New York, United States6 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cross-team projects at Bloomberg.
Founded a profitable VPN company.
Presented at PyCon Taiwan 2024.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Developer with strong leadership and technical skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaPythonC++

Other Skills

TrinoREST APIsSpring BootKubernetesApache IcebergParquetSparkPySparkArrowDartFlutterApache ArrowJavaScriptCHaskell

About

I'm a Java, Python, and C++ developer with years of experience writing performance sensitive services used by clients around the world to make billion dollar trading decisions. I also ran a company in 2021-2022 selling a VPN.

Experience

6 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Bloomberg lp

4 roles

Engineering Team Lead

Promoted

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · New York, New York, United States

I lead a team of 4 engineers. We write Java 21 and Python 3 to serve financial data to customers using Trino and REST APIs. Our microservices are built using Spring Boot 3 and run on Kubernetes. Our data lakehouse is built on Apache Iceberg and Parquet, we use technologies like Spark (including PySpark) and Arrow to ETL our datasets. I lead projects spanning 4-5 teams across multiple departments, including leading quarterly and yearly planning, budgeting, reporting to senior stakeholders, resolving conflicts in business priorities.

JavaPythonTrinoREST APIsSpring BootKubernetes+5

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

I write Java 21, 17, and Python for data pipelines responsible for delivering terabytes of financial data to clients. Technologies used include Apache Iceberg, (Py)Spark, Parquet, Arrow. Led my team's Java 11 to 17 upgrade strategy. Technical leader for several cross-team projects with responsibilities including creating requirements with product managers, setting timelines. Gave a talk at PyCon Taiwan 2024 on memory profiling PySpark jobs.

JavaPythonApache IcebergPySparkParquetArrow

Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom

Wrote high performance distributed C++17/20 and Python services for computing portfolio analytics. Designed APIs for portfolio data access. Heavy user of Apache Arrow for fast, cache-friendly in-memory calculations and IPC.

C++PythonApache Arrow

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Implemented high throughput, low latency database services for financial data in C++. Some web development in Python and JavaScript.

C++PythonJavaScript

Arboretum networks limited

Founder, Lead Developer

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

Founded a company selling a VPN. Built Python backend services, and an Android app using Dart and Flutter. Did sales and marketing. Was profitable but ultimately not scalable - competing on price alone with established players was too hard. Spent a lot of time on Twitter doing marketing and sales.

PythonDartFlutter