ALEŠ POGAČAR

Algorithmic Trading Developer | Python/C++ Engineer | Automation Specialist
📍 Bogotá - Colombia / Ljubljana - Slovenia ✉ pogacar.al@gmail.com 🌐 offershtml.com 📞 +57 3181 691 854 / +386 31 691 854
Summary

Execution-focused Trading Systems Engineer specializing in medium-frequency trading (MFT) infrastructure across futures and crypto markets. Experienced in designing and operating live multi-account execution systems, exchange connectivity, risk gating, and cloud-native trading architectures (AWS). Strong expertise in production-grade Python systems, order routing, slippage management, real-time risk controls, and infrastructure resilience. Proven track record operating in high-intensity startup environment requiring cross-functional execution across software engineering and quantitative development.

Interests & Motivation

Passionate about automation, digitalization, and building systems that eliminate repetitive work. I enjoy turning manual, high-friction processes into autonomous, scalable workflows by combining software, hardware, APIs, and data engineering. My focus is always on efficiency, reliability, and creating solutions that run themselves.

Experience
Technical Stack

Programming Concepts: OOP, Concurrency, Paralell Processing, Event-driven architecture, Distributed systems, API-driven integrations

Execution Systems: Order management, OCO/OCA workflows, stop-limit mechanics, slippage-aware execution

Trading: Sierra Chart ACSIL, Pine Script, Backtrader, Quant Connect, Ninja Trader, MT5, Market data APIs

Languages: Python, C++, R, SQL, VBA

Cloud (Trading): AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch Logs/Alarms, EC2/Lightsail, DynamoDB/SSM, systemd

Automation: PowerShell, Bash, Windows & Linux automation

APIs: API design, API automation, REST API integration, Python Fast API

GoPro Integration: OpenGoPro, GoPro Labs scripting, BLE automation systems

Media Automation: ExtendScript, Adobe Premiere Pro scripting

Networking: Mikrotik routers, VPN tunnels, network automation

Systems Built: Multi-venue GoPro Max/12 automated recording systems (Planica Zipline, Tscheppaschlucht)

Trading Access Automation: AWS + Discord bot for automated Sierra Chart study access mapping

Payments Automation: Discord Payrole integration for automated subscription/role management

Web Infrastructure: Nginx, Reverse Proxy setup, Load balancing, SSL/TLS (Let’s Encrypt), Domain routing

Data & ML: Pandas, NumPy, XGBoost, Feature engineering

Automation: BLE/GATT, WebSockets, REST APIs

Databases: Oracle SQL, SQLite

DevOps: Docker, Linux, systemd, Logging

Tools: Cursor, LLMs, Spyder, Visual Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, Notepad++

Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

Web/Formats: HTML, XML, JSON

Discord: Bot development, automation workflows, role/payment systems

Hardware: Raspberry Pi automation & BLE integration

Education
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