bio

Garrett Smith is a software engineer and engineering leader specializing in time-critical systems with many years of experience in financial markets and industrial systems.

He spent over a decade at DRW, where he led the development of a front-office options trading platform used across exchanges including CME, CBOE, Eurex, and OSE. His systems mass-quoted thousands of option contracts across nearly 100 products in real time, supporting market making, low-latency liquidity taking, and relative value arbitrage trades.

He has worked in Java, C#, Python, and C++, with most of his experience in Java and C#.

Beyond being an individual contributor, Garrett has led engineering teams, including serving as Vice President of Engineering at Revenova, where he balanced hands-on development with team leadership and architectural modernization. He has lived, worked, hired, and mentored engineers in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.

Garrett has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, where he specialized in process control algorithms and software.