I’m Art Kay, a backend engineer in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been writing software for 25 years - these days mostly in Elixir and Go, with a good stretch of Python and a lot of Terraform along the way.
I’m currently a backend engineer at
iCapital,
where I work on the identity, onboarding, and investor-accreditation systems
that came over with the acquisition of
Parallel Markets
in early 2025. I was Parallel Markets’ first employee and spent five years
there building its identity verification (KYC/AML), accreditation, and
partner-data platforms - from prototype to production, through the exit.
Before that I did data engineering at
The Atlantic,
and before that I was Lead Engineer and then CTO at
Blue Bite,
where we built a US-patented platform connecting physical objects to the web.
Elsewhere, I maintain a couple of Elixir libraries you may already have in your mix.lock.