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IVAN
LEE

QUANT DATA DEV
CRYPTO.COM
3M+ TRADES/DAY
ABOUT 01

Senior Developer building at the intersection of data infrastructure and finance.

Designing high-performance ETL pipelines, distributed database systems, and trade risk platforms that support front-office quants and traders.

CORE THREADS
01 DATA SYSTEMS
02 MACHINE LEARNING
03 TRADING INFRA
/// PROFILE
Based in Singapore. 8+ years building software for financial institutions. From trading desks to ML platforms.

I build systems that process millions of trades daily, power real-time risk decisions, and turn raw market data into actionable signals.

Operating at the intersection of data engineering and quantitative finance. My work sits between the data and the decision — building the infrastructure that traders and quants depend on.

Previously built ML platforms at DBS Bank powering 100+ models, and NLP pipelines for credit sentiment used by prop traders to price distressed bonds.

01Crypto.comMay 2024 — Present
02DBS BankDec 2022 — May 2024
03DBS BankJul 2017 — Dec 2022
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Crypto.com
Senior Developer — Quant Data Team
Architecting high-performance data systems for front-office quants and traders across Spot, Options, and Swaps desks.
PythonClickHouseMongoDBKafkaAirflowFastAPIDockerGrafana
  • Launched AI initiative using Claude SDK + MCP, enabling natural language queries across internal data
  • Scaled real-time PnL & risk systems processing ~3M trades/day via vectorized Pandas + multiprocessing
  • Built ETL pipelines with Airflow & Jenkins transforming raw data into post-trade analytics
  • Designed FastAPI risk transfer system with dry-run impact analysis and approval workflows
  • Optimized MongoDB & ClickHouse with query guardrails to prevent DoS from expensive queries
/// DATA INFRASTRUCTURE 01
ClickHouse OLAP at scale, query optimization
MongoDB Document store for trade data
Redis Caching & real-time state
Kafka Event streaming pipelines
Airflow Orchestration & ETL
/// ML & AI 02
Pandas / NumPy Vectorized data processing
NLP / FinBERT Credit sentiment analysis
Claude SDK / MCP AI initiative, natural language data queries
MLOps Automated retraining, ArgoCD, Spark
/// DEVOPS & CLOUD 03
Docker Containerization
Kubernetes Orchestration at scale
AWS Cloud infrastructure
Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
Grafana Monitoring with Loki, Prometheus
/// LANGUAGES 04
Python Primary — data, ML, backend
Rust High-performance market data pipelines
SQL ClickHouse, PostgreSQL
TypeScript Frontend & tooling

Projects

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Education

Singapore Management University (SMU) 2022
M.Sc. in IT in Business — AI Track
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) 2017
B.Eng. in Engineering Product Development
MIT (IAP Exchange) 2016
Independent Activities Period
Zhejiang University (Exchange) 2015
Engineering Exchange Programme

Certifications

AWS Cloud PractitionerAWS Solutions Architect AssociateCertified Scrum Master

Thoughts
& Notes

WRITING ABOUT DATA, SYSTEMS, AND BUILDING THINGS THAT MATTER.
Building Real-Time Trade Processing at Scale Apr 2026