Brett Shinnebarger

About

A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.

Hello, I'm Brett. Computer scientist by background, but among the cadre of life-long learners, with my passions taking me in a variety of directions. I began coding on the TI-83 calculator, then for an aerospace company at 17, helping to optimize their supply chain. I moved into the hedge fund world during university, went on to work at the biggest fund in the world (at the time), then Forrest Gump'd my way into building a systematic trading fund from the ground up in London, eventually managing 150 million in AUM. After that I decided to port my skills as a data engineer into the tech startup world, helping small companies with lots of data figure out how to use it.

Skills

AI & LLMs

• Claude
• xAI Grok
• OpenAI embeddings
• agentic LLM design
• prompt engineering
• document AI / OCR
• RAG + vectors

Languages

• Python
• SQL
• Ruby
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• Java

Cloud & infrastructure

• AWS
• CDK
• Docker
• ECS Fargate
• Lambda
• Redshift
• Postgres
• MySQL
• OpenSearch
• MWAA / Airflow

Data engineering

• data warehouse architecture
• ETL/ELT pipeline design
• pandas
• SQLAlchemy

Web

• FastAPI
• Rails
• Hotwire / Stimulus
• Tailwind
• Angular

Quant / finance

• systematic trading
• portfolio construction
• quantitative risk management
• futures markets

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