SKL Trading Market Making Platform

Project Description

The SKL Trading Market Making Platform was developed to optimize trading strategies and provide liquidity across multiple financial exchanges. This project involved a complete rewrite of the platform, focusing on a modular design using ZeroMQ and Node.js (TypeScript) to enhance scalability, flexibility, and performance.

Key Features:

• Exchange Connectivity: Integrates a variety of exchange connectivity solutions to streamline trading operations.
• Operational Monitoring: Utilizes Prometheus for real-time metrics and Grafana for data visualization, offering deep insights into market operations.
• Seamless Connectivity and Performance: Designed for high performance, real-time visibility, and reliable market-making operations.

Role Description

As the Senior Lead Developer, I led the complete rewrite of the market-making platform, focusing on modularity and scalability. My responsibilities included:

• Platform Architecture: Designed a modular architecture with ZeroMQ and Node.js (TypeScript), enabling scalability and flexibility for future enhancements.
• Exchange Connectivity: Oversaw the development of exchange connectivity solutions, streamlining integration with various trading platforms.
• Operational Monitoring: Integrated Prometheus metrics across the platform for real-time operational insights and implemented Grafana dashboards for data visualization.
• Kubernetes Migration: Planned and executed the migration of the platform to Kubernetes, unlocking greater scalability, reliability, and high availability to handle increasing workloads.

Key Achievements:

• Delivered a highly scalable and flexible platform capable of supporting complex market-making operations.
• Enhanced operational transparency with real-time monitoring and visualization tools.
• Streamlined liquidity management for clients through an intuitive and feature-rich UI.
• Increased platform resilience and performance through Kubernetes-based deployment.