CV.yaml

cv:
  name: Saul Cooperman
  location: United Kingdom
  email: saulcoops@gmail.com
  phone: "+44 7943 080 262"
  website: https://saul.sh/
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      - Software Engineer focused on building reliable, high-performance distributed
        systems in C++ and Python.
      - Currently developing latency-sensitive middleware at Bloomberg L.P., supporting
        thousands of real-time services.
      - Strong background in multithreading, distributed systems, and cross-team engineering.
    experience:
      - company: Bloomberg L.P.
        position: Software Engineer
        location: London, UK
        start_date: 2024-09
        highlights:
          - Core maintainer of a proprietary distributed messaging platform and gateway
            infrastructure processing 300B+ messages daily with 99.999% uptime, serving
            as mission-critical infrastructure across the firm.
          - Lead development of high-performance, multithreaded C++ and Python SDKs
            with native bindings used by 17,000+ internal microservices across diverse
            production environments.
          - Increased throughput of a high-performance multithreaded Python library
            with C++ bindings by 35% by building benchmarking and stress-testing infrastructure,
            identifying bottlenecks, and leading optimizations involving CPython internals
            and Python/C++ interoperability.
          - Architect and own a schema-driven Python code generation framework adopted
            by 3,000+ production services (up from ~700), enabling versioned package
            distribution at enterprise scale.
      - company: Bloomberg L.P.
        position: Software Engineer Intern
        location: London, UK
        start_date: 2023-06
        end_date: 2023-09
        highlights:
          - Built a system to analyse live encoded requests and evaluate backward-incompatible
            changes to the schema which encoded them.
          - Enabled teams to evolve message schemas comfortably.
    education:
      - institution: University of Leeds
        area: Computer Science
        degree: BSc
        location: Leeds, UK
        start_date: 2021-09
        end_date: 2024-07
        highlights:
          - First Class Honours.
          - "Final Year Project (First): A neuromechanical model of C. elegans steering
            behaviour integrating sensory and neural mechanisms, optimized using evolutionary
            algorithms."
      - institution: City of London School
        area: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
        degree: A-Level / Pre-U
        location: London, UK
        start_date: 2019-09
        end_date: 2021-07
        highlights:
          - Mathematics/Further Mathematics **D1** (**A\*\***).
          - Awarded “The Worshipful Company of Needlemaker's Prize for IT and Computing”.
    personal_projects:
      - name: PyStack subinterpreter support (open-source Python debugging tool)
        highlights:
          - Contributed subinterpreter support, enabling accurate reconstruction of
            both Python and native (C) stack frames across multiple subinterpreters
            within a single process.
      - name: Generic Compilation Database Generator
        highlights:
          - Reimplemented the C++ tool Bear in Rust, generating compilation database
            for Clang tooling by intercepting Linux build processes via LD_PRELOAD,
            syscall hooking, and a Unix Domain Socket server with Protobuf for structured
            data exchange.
      - name: TFL Times - Real-time Transit App
        highlights:
          - Built a React frontend backed by a Python asyncio WebSocket server, including
            a fully custom typed TTL caching layer with extensive test coverage to
            minimise external API calls and latency.
      - name: Overengineered Tic-Tac-Toe
        highlights:
          - Implemented a Tic-Tac-Toe engine in C++ with Python bindings via pybind11,
            using bitboards.
          - Explored ARM NEON SIMD intrinsics for board evaluation and low-level perf
            optimizations.
      - name: Open source contributions to Pystack, Cython, CPython, BDE
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