Portfolio · Sadra Shameli

Selected work

Futures daytrader and developer, focused on the markets and building tools for trading, strategy analysis and risk management.

01Experience

Work experience

  • Mar 2023 - PresentRijswijk, The NetherlandsCurrent

    Independent trading

    Futures daytrader

    Independent futures daytrader with experience in prop-firm evaluations, funded trading and trading my own capital.

    • Trade NQ futures, with multiple payouts from futures prop firms
    • Operate many independent strategies across assets and timeframes, combining small compounding edges with backtesting and validation against overfitting
    • NQ futures
    • Risk management
    • Strategy research
    • Python
    TradingBot illustration connecting market data, a strategy engine and risk-controlled execution
  • Jun 2024 - PresentRotterdam, The NetherlandsCurrent

    Nobears

    Developer

    Develop and maintain production applications for clients including Bram Ladage, Geleidehond, Topbrands, Van der Lelie and PlatformACCT.

    • Build and maintain 15+ production websites and platforms for Dutch agency clients
    • Created reusable components and development tools that save roughly 1-2 days on each new project
    • PHP
    • Twig
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • SCSS
    • MySQL
    • Redis
    • Docker
    Nobears workspace
  • Dec 2021 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 6 moRotterdam, The Netherlands

    Developed connected devices and the software used to process and visualise their sensor data.

    • Designed 3D-printed IoT devices and built an ASP.NET platform to collect, process and display their telemetry
    • Set up the team's Azure DevOps pipeline for continuous integration and deployment
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • ASP.NET
    • SQL
    • C++
    Blue Star Planning workspace
02Projects

Recent projects

  • Sep 2025 - PresentRijswijk, The NetherlandsCurrent

    TradingBot

    Modular quantitative trading framework

    A systematic trading framework used to research strategies and operate live trading across assets and timeframes.

    • Built a modular Python framework for live and paper trading, with separate data, broker and risk-management components
    • Operate many independent strategies across assets and timeframes, built around small edges that compound over time and backtested to avoid overfitting
    • Validate strategies with walk-forward testing and Monte Carlo analysis, using Bayesian optimisation and PyTorch for position scoring
    • Use multiprocessing and caching to support concurrent data processing and execution
    • Python
    • PyTorch
    • NumPy
    • Pandas
    • Pydantic
    • Redis
    • Docker
    TradingBot illustration connecting market data, a strategy engine and risk-controlled execution
  • Mar 2024 - PresentRijswijk, The NetherlandsCurrent

    sadra.nl

    Personal site & trading toolkit

    Personal site and trading toolkit hosting my portfolio, resume generator, prop-firm calculator, trade checklist and accounting importer. Also serves as the platform for Sensor Hub IoT devices.

    • Built futures prop-firm tools for Monte Carlo simulation, position sizing and payout planning
    • Integrated a trading journal, pre-trade checklists and account tools behind a shared typed API and permissions model
    • Maintain automated checks with Vitest and Playwright across application behaviour and trading-rule logic
    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • tRPC
    • Drizzle
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Better Auth
    • Sentry
  • Nov 2024 - PresentAlkmaar, The NetherlandsCurrent

    Mino Markt

    Persian markt & grill

    Custom storefront for Mino Markt & Grill in Alkmaar, covering loyalty, subscriptions, refunds and order pickup.

    • Custom WooCommerce storefront covering online ordering and in-store pickup
    • Loyalty program, subscriptions, wishlist, and refund workflows
    • Strict OOP PHP backend with full type safety and enum usage, with twig based components and blocks.
    • Customer application in Bootstrap and TypeScript with Google Maps store locator and live store availability
    • PHP
    • WooCommerce
    • Twig
    • TypeScript
    • Bootstrap
    • SCSS
    • MySQL
    • Docker
    Minimal Mino Markt & Grill wordmark artwork in warm copper and cream
  • Feb 2024 - PresentRotterdam, The NetherlandsCurrent

    Sensor Hub

    IoT telemetry devices

    Self-designed IoT telemetry devices, 3 currently deployed across the Netherlands, continuously streaming temperature, humidity, air pressure and loudness data back to sadra.nl.

    • Deployed three ESP32 telemetry devices across the Netherlands, streaming environmental readings to a shared platform
    • Built concurrent C++ firmware with boot times below 100 ms in release builds and persistent failure diagnostics
    • C++
    • ESP32
    • IoT
    • 3D Printing
    Sensor Hub workspace
  • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022Delft, The Netherlands

    Project A.I.

    Self-driving robot

    A self-driving robot on custom 3D-printed hardware, able to follow a course and avoid obstacles on its own.

    • Autonomous driving via TensorFlow on-device inference, navigating a course and avoiding obstacles with no cloud dependency
    • Multithreaded C++ firmware running sensing, inference and motor control on separate threads to keep the control loop inside real-time budgets
    • Custom 3D-printed chassis tuned for the sensor and motor layout
    • Manual override via PS4 / PS5 controller as a safety fallback
    • Python
    • C++
    • Machine Learning
    • 3D Printing
    Project A.I. workspace
03Education

Education

  • Sep 2020 - Aug 2023Delft, The Netherlands

    Grotius College

    VWO - Nature and Technology

    Grotius College workspace