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Carter Collins

@cartercollins

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I am a Senior Python engineer delivering low-latency financial systems and measurable impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role building low-latency, scalable financial or trading systems where I can architect solutions, drive CI/CD automation, mentor engineers, and deliver measurable performance and reliability gains.

I am a Senior Python Engineer with 9+ years building large-scale financial, trading, and risk systems. I specialize in low-latency, high-accuracy applications using Python, Django, SQL, Pandas, and AWS to support multi-million-dollar trading operations.

I have a track record of measurable impact — reducing query latency by 40%, cutting risk-model run-times by 25%, improving decision-making efficiency by 30%, shrinking deployment cycles from two weeks to three days, and halving release-related errors. I design architectures and APIs, build data pipelines and analytics, and embed CI/CD, TDD and automation to deliver faster, more reliable releases.

I mentor and lead engineers, perform advanced troubleshooting for mission-critical systems, and create dashboards and tools that drive business decisions. I seek opportunities to architect scalable systems, improve operational efficiency, and coach teams to deliver robust production software.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Intern Software Developer

NetSuite

Aug 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and managed build/release pipelines using Witbe Tool, Git, and JIRA, reducing release conflicts and cutting development overhead by 40%. Developed Python scripts and optimized SQL/PLSQL procedures to improve reporting performance and automate batch scheduling.