
Hugh Ediet
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since May 6, 2019
Hugh has over 30 years of experience developing software across a breadth of technical and business domains. He is as comfortable bringing his analytical skills to bear at the level of bare metal to complex constellations of processes. He is passionate about problem solving and happy contributing wherever the project requires.
Portfolio
Experience
- Full-stack - 10 years
- JavaScript - 8 years
- Go - 5 years
- Kernel Programming - 5 years
- Python 3 - 5 years
- Vue 2 - 3 years
- Rust - 3 years
- gRPC - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Linux
The most amazing...
...project I've developed was a novel algorithm to reverse-engineer cellular networks 31,000x faster.
Work Experience
Embedded Engineer
Early-stage Startup
- Developed an ultra-low power e-Paper clock using the ESP32 SoC.
- Integrated a GPS module for self-setting and correcting features, allowing periodic power on/off cycles.
- Wrote a font renderer to provide complex morphing animation within the power envelope.
Senior C/C++ Developer
Avorra
- Developed an LXC containerization/virtualization system to track, isolate, and secure running untrusted JavaScript code for serverless telephony.
- Achieved a 40x throughput improvement over the previous solution while maintaining the same cost.
- Implemented a bridge and API to expose telephony services to end-users.
Senior Full-stack Development Manager
Compass
- Integrated forms management, e-sign, and compliance for real-estate closing into the larger cloud of real-estate services offered.
- Facilitated the merging of core groups into a cohesive team following the company's acquisition.
- Architected a gradual integration strategy prioritizing business agility, preservation of business value, and minimizing integration risk between Python and Java systems.
Go Developer
Synphonyte UG
- Reverse-engineered an orphaned XML API to facilitate flight reservations.
- Developed a complete Go API representing over 800 entities and enforcing over 3,500 business rules.
- Delivered the project on an extremely tight deadline to capitalize on a fleeting market opportunity.
Lead Full-stack Engineer
Cogni, Inc
- Implemented a tiered subscription model offering bespoke microloans and preferred partner discounts.
- Directed the rebranding of mobile and web experiences.
- Took over for the departed VP of engineering, managing responsibilities until a permanent replacement was found.
- Rolled out a comprehensive, multi-pronged analytics infrastructure.
Back-end Go Developer
Calm.com (via Toptal)
- Separated subscriptions from the monolithic application into Go microservice with a CQRS/Event Sourcing architecture.
- Designed subscription data models for production and pipeline to the analytics team.
- Developed a back-end for promotional pricing with A/B testing.
- Improved test resolution/ease-of-use, contributed new patterns for more agile and less brittle integration tests, reduced docker image sizes 10x, feature enhancements to in-house DevOps tools.
Director of IT (2014-2019) | Lead Engineer (2009-2014)
Columbia University
- Developed a comprehensive services management and billing system with multiple web front ends that securely made available 30+ million records per year, resulting in a frictionless UX (React, SSR, server streaming, Vue, gRPC, Go, and PostgreSQL).
- Productized research group's method of identifying protein-protein interactions with an improved algorithm (1,000x faster). This speed-up enabled them to stay within budget and explore 100x more genomes (built with Rust, Python, C/C++, and ASM).
- Designed and coordinated the implementation of the architecture for secure sharing and analysis of patient data. Was responsible for ongoing auditing and oversight of security compliance (HIPAA and internal controls).
- Cleaned and restructured a 40TB genomic dataset for a quality and high-performance distributed analysis in the cloud (AWS) along with a custom storage engine.
- Created an original dual-space algorithm (41 years reduced to 18 hours) to identify complex genetic disorders (built with ASM, GPU).
- Built a container system to sandbox users and fair-share limited resources (built with C).
- Developed a compute swarm that robustly handles failures, dynamically redistributes computation, and scales efficiently—scaled to 6,000 instances (built with C/C++, Go, and Python).
- Wrote a Linux overlay file system with real-time adaptive, user-based QoS limits for a 5,000 node compute cluster to prevent runaway usage. A user can only slow themselves down (built with C).
Senior Vice President
Lehman Brothers
- Led a profitable quantitative equity trading team within a mixed disciplinary group.
- Removed an obstacle to a strategy testing framework by adding time-series extensions to MySQL and improved strategy development time 3x.
- Wrote an Excel extension to support the real-time bidirectional communication and live-feed of market data.
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
- Proposed, modeled, and implemented improvements to VWAP execution strategy yielding a 3% price improvement without notably increasing volatility.
- Developed (full-stack) a monitoring system to track all of the firm’s agency equity trades flowing through our execution strategies internationally.
- Built a robust C++ live trading engine with an embedded JavaScript VM for Nimble and safe incremental execution strategy development.
- Increased customer utilization by 10% by tuning and extending the limit-order model.
- Increased returns by 5% on proprietary reversion strategy by better modeling and anticipating risk.
Project Manager
Investment Technology Group
- Refactored and restructured a broken portfolio optimization product to reinvigorate sales.
- Increased the optimizer value by creating and implementing a mathematical model for tax handling of wash-sales.
- Interacted heavily with clients to provide unique extensions for their needs.
Founder
Pencom New Technologies
- Designed and implemented back-end systems and RPC to the front end to manage distributed telephony switching equipment for a client.
- Implemented a two-tier data entry system for trading floor booking for a client.
- Grew the consulting startup to 35 full-time employees.
Senior Software Analyst
Aspen Technology, Inc.
- Sped-up new process modeling by developing chemical engineering specific scripting language.
- Reduced time spent on DevOps by 25% teamwide by creating a multiplatform, incremental build system.
- Built a CORBA RPC back-end for chemical process modeling and optimization software.
Lead Unix Administrator
University of Denver
- Developed a frictionless portal to bill 10,000 students for printing services.
- Built a DNS front-end/database system for managing endpoint networking for the whole campus.
- Managed systems administration team for all central Unix systems.
Experience
I/O Throttling
JavaScript Sandbox
MySQL Timeseries Extension
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Protobuf, Node.js, Vue 2, Python Asyncio, Buefy, Vuex, Pthreads, React, jQuery
Tools
Docker Compose, Git, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, MATLAB, CPLEX, MOSEK, LaunchDarkly, Kafka Streams, KiCad, CMake
Languages
Go, C++, C, Python 3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Rust, R, Assembly Language, Embedded C++, Python, Perl, SAS, Objective-C, Swift, XML, Java, Embedded C
Frameworks
gRPC, Bulma, Nuxt.js, ASM, Angular, Boost, Apache Thrift
Paradigms
Concurrent Programming, Microservices, Agile, Socket Programming, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Microservices Architecture, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Android, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Unix, Docker, Kernel Programming, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, NVIDIA CUDA
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, CockroachDB, Berkeley DB, Datadog, JSON, Relational Databases, Database Architecture
Other
Mobile App Development, Freelancing, Full-stack, Protocol Design, LDAP, GPU Computing, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), RPC, Printer Drivers, Print, CORBA, RESTful Microservices, Leadership, Fintech, SOAP, APIs, API Integration, API Gateways, LXC, Linux Kernel, Espressif, ESP32, Gtest, GPS, E Ink, Linux Kernel Programming, Linux Filesystem, Software Architecture, FreeRTOS
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