ByLeet

Core Maintainers

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Nico Ferretti

Co-Founder & CEO

Nico was a quant developer at a Chicago prop shop before co-founding ByLeet. He authored the original back-testing framework that became LeetBacktest and remains the project's most active contributor. He believes the best way to build a company is to build a community first.

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Kira Volkov

Co-Founder & CTO

Kira brings deep systems programming expertise from six years building low-latency trading infrastructure in C++ and Rust. She leads ByLeet's platform engineering team and is the architect behind LeetDeploy's container orchestration layer.

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Tomasz Kowal

Head of Open Source

Tomasz manages ByLeet's open-source program: triaging issues, reviewing community PRs, and coordinating release cycles across twelve repositories. Previously a developer advocate at a major cloud platform, he has a gift for turning complex technical concepts into clear documentation.

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Aisha Mbeki

Lead Engineer — SDK

Aisha owns the Strategy SDK and its Python ecosystem. Before ByLeet, she built quantitative research platforms at a London macro fund. She holds a master's in computational finance from UCL and is a frequent speaker at PyCon and QuantCon.

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Raj Patel

Head of Infrastructure

Raj runs the managed cloud platform that powers LeetDeploy. A former SRE at a hyperscaler, he designed ByLeet's multi-region Kubernetes architecture and the automated canary-deployment pipeline that keeps client strategies running safely at scale.