Senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years in software and 6+ years of hands-on trading and book management across crypto, derivatives, equities, and options. I build real-time trading terminals, market-data systems, copy-trading infrastructure, automated strategies, and trader-facing products. My edge is combining frontend craft, market microstructure knowledge, and execution-system thinking to build financial products that feel fast, reliable, and easy to use under pressure.

ANTON KANN

Senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years in software and 6+ years of hands-on trading and book management across crypto, derivatives, equities, and options. I build real-time trading terminals, market-data systems, copy-trading infrastructure, automated strategies, and trader-facing products. My edge is combining frontend craft, market microstructure knowledge, and execution-system thinking to build financial products that feel fast, reliable, and easy to use under pressure.

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Senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years in software and 6+ years of hands-on trading and book management across crypto, derivatives, equities, and options. I build real-time trading terminals, market-data systems, copy-trading infrastructure, automated strategies, and trader-facing products.

My edge is combining frontend craft, market microstructure knowledge, and execution-system thinking to build financial products that feel fast, reliable, and easy to use under pressure.

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Work Experience

Senior Full-Stack Realtime Engineer at Apeing DEX
March 1, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Built a prediction-market trading terminal (Polymarket-style) from scratch with a focus on trader-facing UX, market discovery, CLOB integration, and real-time frontend performance. Integrated frontend flows with an existing Rust backend service and used CLOB API / SDK patterns for market data, order-book views, charts, and execution-oriented workflows. Designed category-specific browsing and discovery experiences for Sports, Crypto Intraday, Politics, and Elections markets, optimizing information hierarchy for different trader intents. Reduced friction from market discovery to analysis to order entry through clearer market context and trading-oriented chart and detail views.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Slingshot
December 1, 2024 - January 31, 2026
Led development of a scalable trading app serving 50,000+ users. Mentored junior engineers and provided technical leadership. Built a Solana + perps trading terminal including market discovery, token pages, charts, order panels, wallet state, positions, P&L, live trades, and copy trading. Worked close to the browser rendering pipeline: code-splitting chart surfaces, isolating live-data subscriptions, bounding history, reducing avoidable re-renders, and keeping order-entry surfaces responsive. Owned the data path end to end from exchange connectivity and backend API contracts to latency-sensitive order entry and real-time risk surfaces. Implemented asynchronous WebSocket and REST integrations to ingest exchange events and stream live positions, fills, P&L, and market state to trading clients.
Lead Software Engineer at Goldpill
August 1, 2023 - Present
Architected and shipped a multi-exchange copy-trading platform with per-account exchange clients and normalized trading abstractions across Bybit, Bitget, Binance, and Hyperliquid. Built a low-latency master ingestion and reconciliation engine using WebSocket + REST hybrid flows to mirror swing/scalp strategies into subscriber accounts. Implemented execution safeguards including circuit breakers, idempotency, distributed locking, leverage caps, symbol normalization, exchange constraints, minimum order-value checks, and TP/SL propagation. Designed responsive trading dashboards backed by WebSocket and RPC-driven pipelines and built cross-venue market intelligence tooling aggregating order book depth, funding rates, open interest, and liquidation data. Implemented Stripe and Solana payment rails, wallet-signature login, magic links, onboarding automations, role-based sessions, attribution tracking, and Telegram operations tooling.
Full-Stack / Quantitative Engineer (Freelance) at Freelance
April 1, 2022 - Present
Built high-performance trading products and low-latency data pipelines using TypeScript, React/Next.js, Python, Rust, Node.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, and gRPC. Designed real-time interfaces where execution correctness, state consistency, responsiveness, and user trust are critical. Developed trading bots ingesting order flow and computing expectancy-driven signals for execution across DEX/CEX venues. Implemented tick-level pipelines, funding-rate inputs, risk-neutral sizing, adaptive execution logic, and changing market-condition handling. Built dashboards and internal tools for market analysis, signal generation, execution review, and operational workflows.
Quantitative Trader at FF Capital
May 1, 2021 - Present
Researched, backtested, and traded systematic crypto strategies across derivatives, spot, and on-chain markets with focus on market structure, execution quality, and disciplined risk management. Built proprietary dashboards aggregating exchange, market, and on-chain data for trading decisions and post-trade review. Maintained a repeatable research workflow covering idea generation, data extraction/validation, backtesting, live execution, and performance review. Traded and analyzed strategies using order flow, funding rates, liquidation data, volatility regimes, and market-structure signals. Executed Solana token launches, managed Meteora pool liquidity, and ran market-making/liquidity operations around newly issued tokens.
Frontend Developer at Deribit
June 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
Developed live market tables, data visualizations, and WebSocket-driven dashboard components for fast-moving crypto derivatives environments. Worked on frontend architecture emphasizing responsiveness, reliability, and visual clarity under high concurrency. Built UI components for latency-sensitive trading workflows where clarity, speed, and accuracy affect user confidence. Ported key frontend architecture to mobile using React Native.
Co-Founder & CMO at Breakfree Trading
March 1, 2019 - September 30, 2022
Co-founded and scaled a trading software, indicator, and education business to $1.5M+ ARR serving active retail traders across crypto, equities, forex, and derivatives. Co-led product strategy for trader-facing indicators, education workflows, chart-based signal presentation, alert logic, onboarding flows, and trading-product UX. Translated discretionary trading frameworks into productized tools, visual overlays, education modules, and repeatable user journeys. Owned product positioning and user acquisition across paid media, organic content, webinars, email funnels, landing pages, and community-driven acquisition. Managed PPC and direct-response campaigns optimizing CAC, activation, purchase conversion, retention, and subscription revenue. Built messaging around trader pain points such as overtrading and interpreting noisy market data.
Frontend Engineer at Codegent, Digital Product Studio
January 1, 2017 - June 30, 2019
Built production React frontends for enterprise, fintech, and SaaS clients including British Airways and multiple financial technology startups. Worked in small, fast-moving teams delivering maintainable interfaces from concept through production.
Founder & CEO at Chronos Video
June 1, 2016 - February 28, 2018
Founded a 2D/3D video marketing studio helping fintech startups simplify complex products for customers and investors. Led client acquisition, creative direction, delivery, and product storytelling.
Junior Software Engineer (Internship) at Wonderlic
March 1, 2016 - February 28, 2017
Worked with AngularJS and Java Spring Boot to build frontend for an interactive job applicant testing software, including dynamic form flows, scoring interfaces, and data-driven user workflows.
Software Developer (Internship) at Float
February 1, 2015 - January 31, 2016
Worked on the main frontend for an SME accounting software as part of the early core team.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
January 11, 2030 - August 1, 2026
Bachelor's Degree, Crossmedia Production at Tallinn University
January 11, 2030 - August 1, 2026

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics

Experience Level

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