Kyle Kavanagh Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Tortola, Vg

Remote First, Us

Lead distributed systems architect and engineer for Coinbase Markets’ low-latency electronic trading platform.Designed and built a full-featured exchange architecture from first-principles. The architecture provided low-latency operation with full fault tolerance and observability to allow for 24x7 operation. The design also included bespoke Order Entry and Market Data protocols and related messaging libraries as interfaces to the exchange. Authored an event-sourced Matching Engine for the new platform.Helped open the Chicago office and recruit and hire over twenty people across product, software, x86, networking, and physical infrastructure to build a fully self-sufficient exchange operation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Served as the Globex team’s representative to the COO’s cross-functional Market Microstructure Working Group, responsible for shaping the direction of CME’s electronic markets. Regularly provide insight and analysis on subjects relating to participant behavior (e.g. tick-to-trade, messaging behavior, and microwave activities), as well as CME market dynamics (e.g. customer concentration, correlation analysis, and impacts of latency). The working group is tasked with defining CME’s official positions on market structure topics and the team’s work is regularly presented to CME’s Management Team.Directly responsible for ensuring consistent performance and capacity of CME’s low-latency Globex Electronic Trading Platform. Regularly provide scientific and systematic latency profiling, business message optimization, and order entry/market data parity expertise. Designed and built a library to collect and record performance metrics in a novel way from critical-path applications.• Head of the Telemetry effort as a part of CME’s internal startup incubator to open-source/commercialize the software performance management and optimization software originally built for the Matching Engine.Designed and led the implementation of the architecture for CME’s hybrid cloud infrastructure. The design allows for realtime trading data to be reliably piped to AWS for further processing. Architecture is designed to ensure a simple transition to the cloud for applications currently running in a private data center.Leader of the Match Engine’s summer intern and entry-level hire programs. Responsible for leading recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of summer interns and entry-level software engineers. Regularly work with HR and division leadership to improve the recruiting and hiring process.