My name is Filip Macek, full-stack software developer and financial engineer who graduated in mathematics . I am currently focused on building and exploring complex software systems with real world use cases. Being curious and loving challenges, I have always embraced a different set of problems and situations. My goal is to bring value and make connections based on trust.
- Data intensive and interactive React apps
- Distributed computer system architecture and design, blockchain
- Domain software modeling
- High performance web servers
- Microservice design and distributed streaming with Kafka
- Scalable cloud architecture and Kubernetes, DevOps
- All things related to algorithmic trading, HFT, market-making, backtesting and financial markets in general
Programming languages
- Javascript / Typescript
- Python / Cython
- R
- Solidity
- Currently, learning Rust and Go
Frontend
- React, NextJS
- HTML, CSS, styled-components, D3
Backend
- Express, NestJS
- NodeJS
- FastAPI, asyncio
- SQL, Postgres, MongoDB
DevOps
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Linux
- 📘 My favorite book is Tao Te Ching. It is such a magnificent piece of poetry about the way things are.
- 🖥️ I love my desk setup - split keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle Pro), flexible standing desk and IDE and VIM for typing
- 🎻 I used to play cello.
- 🧑🤝🧑 I love teaching and sharing knowledge. I used to teach kids mathematics and programming and prepare groups of students for math exams.
- 🎼 I listen mostly ethnotronica, organic, oriental and deep house and a bit of hip-hop/rap. But If I want something different, jazz and classical music is also my thing.
- 👟 I like sports and movement. My favorite are swimming, skiing, running and climbing.
- 👨🎓 For my master thesis is designed ecosystem and software architecture for decentralized route processing system with help of smart contract on Ethereum.
I am always open to chat about interesting computer science topics and financial markets.
Please reach out to me if you have some interesting project, want to collaborate or need freelance work.
You can find my CV here.