Simon
Busch

Founded and build a trail-race planning platform that turns any race into a personalized roadbook, pacing strategy, and nutrition plan, ready to load onto a runner's watch.

• ▸Personalized roadbooks with segment-by-segment pacing calibrated to each runner's goal and the course terrain
• ▸Nutrition planning (carbs, hydration, sodium) matched to effort level across every segment of the race
• ▸The biggest trail-running race calendar: 33,000+ courses across 900+ regions, filterable by distance, elevation, discipline, and ITRA / UTMB certification
• ▸Built Kliva Race Plan ↗, a custom Garmin Connect IQ data field in Monkey C that brings the race plan onto the runner's wrist
• ▸GPX / FIT exports, plus printable crew-assistance sheets

[TypeScript] [Next.js] [Python] [Go] [Monkey C] [AI agents]

Founded and operated a proprietary trading firm as sole engineer across the full stack: designed low-latency systems and shipped autonomous trading products end to end.

• ▸Shipped a prediction-market trading system driven by a custom-built probabilistic pricing engine
• ▸Built a Solana sniping bot in Go: real-time token detection, sniping logic, and rug-pull detection via wallet clustering, executing through Jupiter DEX & Helius RPC
• ▸Developed a copy-trading terminal for tracking and mirroring on-chain strategies in real time
• ▸Architected low-latency Go execution engines (real-time ingestion, order execution, and risk monitoring on Hyperliquid & Binance) with air-gapped key storage for all live assets

[Go] [Python] [Solana] [Hyperliquid] [Docker] [AWS] [PostgreSQL]

Led engineering for a blockchain-security firm delivering fuzzing infrastructure and tooling for high-profile DeFi protocols.

• ▸Smart-contract fuzzing audits for high-value DeFi clients: invariant definition & property-based testing with Foundry, Echidna, Medusa
• ▸Built an automated security tooling suite: log parsers for fuzzing frameworks, ABI parsers, CI/CD-integrated audit pipelines
• ▸Redesigned the CI/CD pipeline, cutting Docker build times by 80%
• ▸Re-architected the frontend, improving page-load performance by 60%

[TypeScript] [Next.js] [Node.js] [Solidity] [Foundry] [Echidna] [Medusa] [AWS]

Drove product development for a leading Web3 competitive security-auditing platform.

• ▸Pioneered a complexity oracle for automated project scoping, reducing manual estimation time by 75%
• ▸Built a Chrome extension for contest judging, adapting the GitHub UI with a custom action layer, adopted by 500+ users for an 80% productivity gain
• ▸Designed a user-management system improving authentication security and role-assignment workflows
• ▸Engineered payout-distribution algorithms ensuring accurate compensation for thousands of auditors across competitions

[TypeScript] [Next.js] [Node.js] [Hapi] [PostgreSQL] [Vercel]

Energy-tech startup in Switzerland building real-time monitoring for smart infrastructure.

• ▸Built a production dashboard for real-time data visualization and analytics, from concept to deployment
• ▸Worked on heat-reduction algorithms for connected infrastructure
• ▸Published an open-source NPM package contributing reusable utilities to the developer ecosystem

[React] [Node.js] [TypeScript] [Sequelize] [PostgreSQL]