Trent Small
Staff Software Engineer at Hello Moon
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolTrent Small is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, secure APIs and systems from startups to large tech teams. He’s led product- and security-focused engineering work—migrating Chrome extensions to Manifest V3, instituting vulnerability and testing processes, and creating tooling for ML-driven payment fraud detection at Google. Trent has hands-on experience in finance and DeFi integrations, shipping production-ready services and deployment/rollback systems that prioritize maintainability. Based in Albuquerque, he combines deep backend proficiency (C++, Java, Ruby on Rails) with embedded and research roots, having authored a notable cellular automata simulator during his university work. Practical, security-minded, and comfortable across the stack, he excels at turning complex, risky domains into auditable, robust systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
linux10
nix9
java9
ocaml9
nixos9
cpp9
nixpkgs8
opam8
javascript7
package-repository7
typescript7
gfx7
shell6
parallel-processing6
passwords6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Sixstring982/MFMv2
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
C++ Implementation of the Movable Feast Machine simulator
Contributions:422 commits, 1 comment in 11 months
cpp
Sixstring982/nixpkgs
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Contributions:32 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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