Performance-Focused C++ Software Engineer

Max Brodetsky

+1-516-***-**** ********@*****.*** LinkedIn NY

SUMMARY

Performance-driven Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building low-latency, high- throughput, performance-critical C++ systems.

Hands-on experience optimizing execution pipelines, reducing end-to-end processing latency by

~80%. Strong focus on deterministic processing, concurrency, and trading system fundamentals, with continuous hands-on learning in backtesting and simulation. EXPERTISE

Technical Skills:

• Languages: C++ (17/20, RAII, ownership semantics, smart pointers, STL). Python.

Rust(working knowledge).

JavaScript, SQL, C#, C.

• Systems & Low-Level: Multi-threading, Concurrency, Socket Programming, Memory Management, Linux.

• Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Git.

• Fintech/HFT Domain: Binary Protocol Parsing, Market & Time-Series Data Processing, Backtesting Engines, Real-time Visualization.

• AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, LLM-based code assistants) for rapid prototyping and refactoring

Software Developer - 108 Unit

2021 - Feb 2024: Israeli Air Force, Israel

Contributed to performance optimizations that reduced end-to-end flight-recording decoding time by ~80%, working on performance-critical, low-latency C++ systems for raw binary data processing.

Responsibilities & Contributions:

• Developed performance-critical C++ systems for decoding and processing raw binary flight telemetry data.

• Reverse-engineered undocumented binary data streams, identifying message boundaries and field layouts with strict correctness requirements.

• Implemented low-latency, multi-threaded parsing pipelines, improving throughput and reducing end-to-end processing latency under real-time constraints.

• Built deterministic decoding logic for binary communication protocols (MIL-STD-1553, PP194), ensuring reliable and repeatable results.

• Integrated decoded data into downstream analytics and visualization systems, validating data integrity end-to-end.

Full-Stack Developer - Easy Gift

Feb 2024 - Feb 2025: (Independent Project)

Easy Gift is a web-based platform for managing and tracking event gifts, allowing hosts to view all received gifts in one place and guests to maintain a personal gift-giving history.

• Designed and developed the application independently end-to-end, including frontend, backend, and database layers.

• Built a Node.js / Express backend with RESTful APIs, authentication, and MongoDB-based data models.

• Developed a React frontend for event management, gift tracking, and user dashboards.

• Implemented core features such as user authentication, event creation, gift tracking, payments, and email notifications.

• Owned the full development lifecycle from architecture and implementation to testing and deployment.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Algorithmic Trading Backtesting Framework (C++ / Python) Personal Project 2025 – Present

Built a personal algorithmic trading backtesting framework to evaluate trading strategies under realistic execution and accounting constraints.

• Implemented a hybrid architecture with a performance-critical C++ execution engine and a Python- based strategy layer.

• Designed execution logic with strict rules for next-bar execution, cash vs equity accounting, and position tracking, while avoiding common backtesting pitfalls such as look-ahead bias and over-buying.

• Developed and tested multiple trading strategies (Moving Average Crossover, Ichimoku, RSI, Bollinger Bands, Support/Resistance).

• Built data ingestion and storage pipelines for historical market data using HDF5. EDUCATION

2019 – 2021 Ariel University, Associate Degree, Software Engineering 2018 – 2019 The Open University, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Economics (Partial Completion)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- Work Authorization: U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card)

- Languages: English, Hebrew (Native)

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