Kingston
Summary
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RockstarShirlin Kingston is a quantitative trader and MIT senior studying Computer Science and Mathematics with a Economics minor, blending rigorous math with production software skills. She has interned across trading (Virtu Financial), data science (Cognitive ToyBox), and software (Climate), shipping IRT-based adaptive assessment tooling and statistically grounded scoring systems. At Virtu she progressed from winternship projects to a full-time quant trader role on a fixed-income desk, honing strategy design, simulation-driven risk/reward modeling, and market-aware execution. Shirlin also contributes to open-source blockchain tooling—refactoring IBC channel logic in a well-known Golang repo—demonstrating backend engineering chops in distributed systems. Her background spans academic research in food systems and materials science to practical product work, giving her an uncommon blend of quantitative rigor, cross-domain curiosity, and product-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
golang10
go10
blockchain10
testing9
cosmos9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/ibc-go
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) implementation in Golang.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:975 reviews, 68 commits, 208 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kingston primarily contributed to the implementation of the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) in Golang. Their work involved refactoring channel open/close events, moving event handling to the keeper function, and removing unnecessary handlers. Additionally, the user made improvements to the channel handshake process and emitted events for various channel operations, which included creating helper functions for generating capability names.
blockchaincommunication-protocolgolangcosmos
Ryan-Gordon/interchain-accounts-client
May 2021 - May 2021
interchain-accounts-client
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 10 days
interchain
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