Hey, I’m Alen. I build market making systems, low-latency trading stacks, exchange infrastructure and AI Agents. Obsessed with where finance meets tech. I ride my bike when I’m not fighting the Rust borrow checker.
Blogs
Experience
Eterna Labs
Oct 2025 - Present
Software Engineer
- Algorithmic market making on perpetual futures and prediction markets
- Building low latency trading systems and exchange infrastructure in Rust
- Building AI agents that simulate behavioral trading and market microstructure
Stealth Startup
May 2025 - Sep 2025
Software Engineer
- Developed backend solutions for an edtech platform
- Led the migration of a monolithic architecture to scalable microservices
- Deployed applications on Kubernetes for resource management and reliability
CoinTracker
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Software Engineer
- Worked on enterprise RAG and AI agents for investing and knowledge assistants
- Led deployment of a scalable integrations service with Kubernetes
OSS
DefiLlama
Merged
- Krystal: replaced a broken Solana TVL API with on-chain vault reads and Raydium CLMM valuation
- Factor: replaced paid Graph queries with on-chain leverage vault TVL
- Yields page: skipped extra data fetches and used indexed pool lookups to speed up static generation
- OneSec: read ICP TVL from the canister after the public API started returning 403s
- Meridian: restored AMM TVL from the pool package after the lens call failed
- Maverick: stopped TVL from failing when a single token balance reverted
- Fixed mobile Turnstile layout on the app
- KongSwap: marked sunset protocol dimensions as dead
- Omicron: corrected a deadFrom date typo
Projects
Perp-Dex
Dex for perp futures with multiple liquidation mechanism for solana
redis-rs
Redis from scratch in Rust
CodeSpace
Isolated Codespaces for React and Nodejs via K8s
CLMM
Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker for Solana
Payment Gateway
Handles private key management and adrress sweeping via indexer
AlgoRush
DSA arena. 500+ users