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Rob Scott

Data platform engineer and technical lead in Sydney. Fifteen years building market data infrastructure for trading, quantitative research and risk at Macquarie, DRW and Bloomberg. Outside work I design, build and run my own products, from portfolio analytics to wine science.

Rob Scott
15+
Years in market data
6
Products built solo
WSET III
Certified in wines
Yachtmaster
RYA Offshore

Selected work

Products and open source.

Built solo, end to end: product, design, data and infrastructure. Two run in production on AWS. The rest are open source.

01

ScalableWealth

A solo-built, institutional grade portfolio management platform with full performance, risk and attribution analytics, plus guardrailed and deterministic LLM integration. Running in production on AWS.

Portfolio managementRiskLLMAWS
In production
02

Rob's Wine

A WSET-aligned wine variety dataset, admin portal and consumer taste profiler, built to support a Master of Wine's wine school. Research-grounded calibration anchors, LLM-assisted profile generation, blind-tasting drills and a personal tasting log.

WineDataLLMAWS
In production
03

K2 Market Data Platform

A production cryptocurrency market data lakehouse for quantitative research, compliance and analytics. Ingests live trades from three crypto exchanges via custom feed handlers, stores 33M+ rows across Redpanda, ClickHouse (warm) and Iceberg (cold), and serves sub-second analytical queries.

Market dataStreamingClickHouseIceberg
Open source
04

Sailflow

A free, browser-based rig-tune and sail-trim trainer for the J/70. No backend, no account, and it works offline on a phone after the first visit.

SailingPWAOpen source
Open source
05

Constellate

Three knowledge planes (embedded, unified, composed) behind one retrieval contract, benchmarked head-to-head on MovieLens ml-25m. Relational, vector and graph fusion, an MCP context plane with dual LLM drivers, and a React explorer.

RetrievalKnowledge graphsMCPOpen source
Open source
06

Astro (data framework)

An open-source framework for making enterprise data safely usable by humans, applications and AI agents. Not to be confused with the web framework of the same name.

Data platformAI agentsOpen source
Open source

Currently leading market data technology at Macquarie Group, after building data platforms at DRW in Chicago and Bloomberg in New York and Sydney.

Full history on LinkedIn
Macquarie DRW Bloomberg

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