Marcus Vance
Available Now@marcus_systems • Senior Rust & Backend Engineer
Austin, TX• 8+ yrs exp• 4.96 (33 projects completed)
Hourly Rate
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About Marcus
Marcus is a systems engineer specialized in extreme performance, concurrency, and memory-safe systems engineering. He has engineered order routing matching engines, high-frequency telemetry parsers, and custom binary protocols.
Key Career Highlights
- Built custom matching engine in Rust executing limit orders in under 35 microseconds
- Contributed optimizations to popular open-source async Rust crates (Tokio ecosystem)
- Engineered distributed telemetry pipeline processing 4TB of stream logs per hour
Featured Engineering Work
Aether High-Speed Matching Engine
<35µs Order ExecutionSub-millisecond cryptocurrency and securities order matching core in Rust.
RustTokiogRPCLinux eBPF
StreamForge Kafka Pipeline
4TB Data / HourHigh-throughput real-time telemetry processing consumer in Go and Kafka.
GoKafkaPostgreSQLRedis
Verified Skills & Stack
RustGoC++gRPCRedisKafkaPostgreSQLTokioLinux Internals
Industry Accreditations
Rust ContributorWebSocketsLow-Latency