About

I’m Victoria Michalska, a software engineer based in New York City. At Trumid Financial LLC, I work in Scala on trading-order validation, Kafka-backed workflows, and event-driven services. My focus is financial correctness and reliability: making distributed systems behave predictably when order state, risk checks, and production operations meet.

Previously, at Adaptive Financial Consulting, I built Java services and distributed gateway components for a trading and auction platform. My work included actor-based processing, Aeron-backed data access, Kafka integrations, and end-to-end tests for failure scenarios. You can find a concise account of this work on my experience page and in my résumé.

I studied computer science and art history at Williams College. I grew up in Queens as a first-generation American in a Polish immigrant family, and my path into engineering began through art, web work, and an interest in data. I still value the close observation and clear communication that those experiences taught me. Beyond work, I continue to enjoy art and design; some of my earlier academic research is here too.