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I am a results-driven Rust and performance engineering specialist with 25+ years in financial services, crypto, and payments. I focus on ultra-low latency systems, performance engineering, and automation to deliver robust, scalable fintech platforms. I have delivered across HFT, Market Data Gateways, Trading Engines, Matching Engines, and Payment Gateways. I am comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, driving change in fintech and blockchain scale-ups.…I am a results-driven Rust and performance engineering specialist with 25+ years in financial services, crypto, and payments. I focus on ultra-low latency systems, performance engineering, and automation to deliver robust, scalable fintech platforms. I have delivered across HFT, Market Data Gateways, Trading Engines, Matching Engines, and Payment Gateways. I am comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, driving change in fintech and blockchain scale-ups.

Jad Salfiti

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I am a results-driven Rust and performance engineering specialist with 25+ years in financial services, crypto, and payments. I focus on ultra-low latency systems, performance engineering, and automation to deliver robust, scalable fintech platforms. I have delivered across HFT, Market Data Gateways, Trading Engines, Matching Engines, and Payment Gateways. I am comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, driving change in fintech and blockchain scale-ups.…I am a results-driven Rust and performance engineering specialist with 25+ years in financial services, crypto, and payments. I focus on ultra-low latency systems, performance engineering, and automation to deliver robust, scalable fintech platforms. I have delivered across HFT, Market Data Gateways, Trading Engines, Matching Engines, and Payment Gateways. I am comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, driving change in fintech and blockchain scale-ups.

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I am a results-driven Rust and performance engineering specialist with 25+ years in financial services, crypto, and payments. I focus on ultra-low latency systems, performance engineering, and automation to deliver robust, scalable fintech platforms.

I have delivered across HFT, Market Data Gateways, Trading Engines, Matching Engines, and Payment Gateways. I am comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, driving change in fintech and blockchain scale-ups.

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Work Experience

Founder at FluxGeko

January 1, 2023 - November 21, 2025

Founder of FluxGeko (team of 2 developers). Built a low-latency / high-throughput market data aggregator and trading engine platform for casual traders and trading bots, with analytics for the crypto market in Rust.

Lead, Performance/Non Functional Testing and Engineering at Planet (formerly 3C Payment)

July 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025

Led a team of Java developers and performance engineers to stabilize and scale the Planet/3C payment gateway across card-present and e-commerce flows. Drove modernization from Java 1.5/8 to Java 17, refactoring legacy code and introducing modern CI/CD pipelines. Designed and executed JMeter-based load, stress, and soak tests; ran distributed JMeter for high-throughput scenarios.

Senior Performance Engineering / Senior SDET at Kraken

December 31, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Worked in the performance engineering team on a low-latency, high-throughput trading engine architecture built in Python and C++. Built benchmarking, analysis, and reporting frameworks for the Trading Matching Engine, NFT Auction engine, and Market Data gateways. Investigated spikes and jitters in production and built low-latency test frameworks to replicate production issues in lab environments.

Automation Lead / QA (e-FX Greenfield “STORM” project) at BNY Mellon

July 1, 2021 - July 1, 2021

Subject matter expert in FX, leading a team of 2 QAs and 4 Java SDETs in London on a greenfield e-FX project. The project included new ECN connections and Test API, new e-FX Trading UI, and aggregators.

Java / TestNG Global QA Lead at Barclays — BATS (Algorithmic Trading Engine, Multi-Asset)

June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020

Global QA Lead across FX, Rates, Credit. Managed a team of 8 QA, Developers, and Automation across Singapore, India, London, and New York. Weekly release sign-off across asset classes, production release support, automation strategy for the BATS engine, and delivery for MiFID II stress testing. Developed bespoke automation frameworks, JMeter, TestNG, Solace, Tibco, QuickFix/J pricing servers.

Test Automation Development Lead (Java) at Barclays FX — BARX

October 1, 2017 - October 1, 2017

Test Automation Development Lead for BARX FX Money Market (Java).

VP, Automation Development Lead at J.P. Morgan Chase — Investor Services

April 1, 2017 - April 1, 2017

Designed and performance-tested complex E2E environments; built strategy and managed teams implementing solutions using Java APIs.

VP, Non-Functional Performance / Payment Gateways Application Development Lead (Java) at J.P. Morgan Chase — FX E2E Program

February 1, 2016 - February 1, 2016

Non-Functional Performance / Payment Gateways App Development Lead (Java).

Performance Test SME at Lloyds — Commercial Banking

February 1, 2015 - February 1, 2015

Non-Functional Performance and Automation Expert (SME).