Gary Black
Founder Principal Software Engineer And Technology Lead Project IDP at Digilogue Technologies Ltd.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGary Black is a founder and principal software engineer with 11 years of focused experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems and AI-enhanced time-series platforms. He built and led Digilogue’s Project Discovery and current Project IDP—turn-key platforms for algorithm discovery, time-series trading, and single-click deployments—combining production-grade engineering with generative AI for algorithmic assistance. Gary has a strong track record modernizing core banking at major institutions (RBC, President’s Choice Financial), implementing event-driven, Kafka-based architectures and cloud hybrid migrations at scale. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computer Science with Big Data (Distinction) and pairs academic depth with hands-on infrastructure experience from commodity data centers to PaaS/CaaS deployments. Notably, his work bridges research (evolutionary algorithms, ML for trading) and operational excellence, having driven profitable live services and built bespoke tooling for monitoring, CI/CD and test harnesses. Based in Old Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with enterprise-grade reliability and a penchant for turning exploratory R&D into production revenue.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering (Computer Science Stream), BSc, Software Engineering (Computer Science Stream) at University of the West of ScotlandMaster of Science - MSc, Advanced Computer Science with Big Data, Master of Science MSc awarded with Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Computer Science with Big Data, Master of Science MSc awarded with Distinction at University of StrathclydeHigher National Diploma, Electronic Engineering Practice, Higher National Diploma, Electronic Engineering Practice at South Lanarkshire College
English
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gar2000b/algorithms
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Algorithms, Dynamic Data Structures and ADTs in Java
Contributions:61 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
datastructuredynamic-datajavadata-structuresadts
gar2000b/vending-machine
May 2015 - Feb 2020
vending-machine (java)
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
javavending-machine
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