Jeffrey Schwab
jeff@unbuggy.com • +1 (617) 407-2542 • github.com/jeffs
Hands-on engineering leader with 25+ years across FinTech, AI, and distributed systems.
Experience
Freelance Software Engineer at Unbuggy Software, May 2026 - Present
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- Completed tightly scoped projects and short-term contracts
- Contributed to new product development for AI evals and orchestration
- Worked in Rust, Python, and TypeScript
Staff Engineer at Bluefin, November 2024 – April 2026
DeFi perpetuals exchange. Rust (Axum, Tokio), Postgres, Redis, Kafka, ZeroMQ, Kubernetes on AWS.
- Played a senior role in launching the company’s first production Rust services, then continued building functionality and improving performance
- Sustained sub-millisecond latency and three-nines uptime through profiling, benchmarking, and architecture refinement
- Built and open-sourced a CCXT connector (and FreqTrade integration) for institutional access: github.com/fireflyprotocol/ccxt
- Raised code quality through thorough review and mentorship of engineers new to Rust
Software Architect at Wieldy AI, May 2023 – November 2024
Seed-stage healthtech startup. Team of 5 engineers.
- Built backend services for real-time data aggregation and analysis (Python, async)
- Developed RPA-based integrations with external systems
Acting CTO at Epistemic AI, April 2021 – June 2022
NLP and knowledge-graph platform for biomedical research, serving academic researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and clinicians.
- Led an engineering team of ten across backend, frontend, and ML infrastructure
- Built infrastructure for versioning and deploying ML models independently of application code
- Coordinated cross-functional work with product, science, and leadership teams
Senior Software Engineer at Google, January 2019 – August 2020
- Engineering Productivity team within Core Systems
- Led development of automatic unit test generator for Angular components
- Collaborated regularly with engineers on three coasts
Engineer at Zipdrug, July 2018 – January 2019
- Began as contractor, served briefly as Head of Engineering
- Formalized development processes and automated data integrations
- Acquired by Anthem’s PBM, IngenioRx
- First engineer in NYC office of Big Data analytics startup
- Identified opportunities, built prototypes, and guided ongoing development
- Acquired by Snap
- Employee #1 at FinTech startup (acquired, now American Express)
- Hired as Senior Engineer, then managed Infrastructure team
- Designed and implemented cloud-based microservice architecture
- Worked on real-time bidding, API integrations, and custom tooling
Tech Lead at Bloomberg, November 2010 – March 2013
- Hired as C++ developer after two-month contract; later managed a small team
- Helped create binding layer to expose native code to dynamic languages
- Guided development of Launchpad, a special-purpose window manager
Earlier roles, 2000 – 2010
Engineering positions at Sun Microsystems, IBM, GE, and various startups. C++, embedded systems, and microprocessor design automation (EDA).
Education
B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, Boston University
Technology
- Languages: Rust, C++, Python, Go, TypeScript
- Systems: Distributed systems, performance engineering, microservices
- Infrastructure: Kafka, Redis, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS
- Domain: FinTech, AI/ML platforms, healthcare