Engineering Collective

Instigate Cafe

A collective of software and hardware engineers building projects, sharing knowledge, and growing through real-world experience.

AMD
Environment Canada
IESO
SAP
TMU
OPG
Sun Life
Hydro One
Origin

Who We Are

Instigate Cafe is a close-knit group of software and hardware engineers brought together through university, collaboration, and a shared interest in building useful things well.

What started as a student community became a lasting network where members share knowledge, solve problems together, and grow through projects, internships, and professional experience.

This website is our collective portfolio, a place to showcase our work, highlight our journey, and represent the community built around the Instigate Cafe name.

TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
NETWORKING & IT SOLUTIONS
EMBEDDED DESIGNS
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
SPORTS ANALYTICS
DATA ENGINEERING
TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
NETWORKING & IT SOLUTIONS
EMBEDDED DESIGNS
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
SPORTS ANALYTICS
DATA ENGINEERING
TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
NETWORKING & IT SOLUTIONS
EMBEDDED DESIGNS
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
SPORTS ANALYTICS
DATA ENGINEERING
TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
NETWORKING & IT SOLUTIONS
EMBEDDED DESIGNS
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
SPORTS ANALYTICS
DATA ENGINEERING

Selected Work

A curated set of projects spanning software, systems, infrastructure, and applied engineering.

2025 - 2026

Meridian

Deterministic, event-driven backtesting engine for intraday futures research. Designed around regime-aware execution, strict session handling, and causal data integrity.

PythonPolarsCUDAPandasNumPyPyArrow
2026

Aegis

Real-time EMS navigation and routing telemetry MVP featuring live mapping, rerouting logic, and algorithm benchmarking. Built at CTRL+HACK+DEL 2.0, where it won York Region’s Best Community Impact Hack.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPIPythonOSMnxNetworkXBM-SSSP
2026

Instigator

Modular Discord bot built for the Instigate Cafe community, combining slash-command utilities, background polling services, persistent storage, and optional LLM-powered features. This project is privately maintained and not publicly released.

Pythondiscord.pySQLiteLLMResume Reviewer
2026

Auro

C++20 market-data systems project for capturing exchange messages, storing them in a compact binary format, and replaying them deterministically for offline analysis, benchmarking, and systems experimentation.

C++20Boost.Beast/AsiosimdjsonCMakeCatch2
2025 - 2026

PlotPoint

Cross-platform media tracking and personal library application designed to consolidate and organize books, movies, and TV shows. Features watchlists, unified rating systems, and curated collection management.

ReactTailwindCSSNext.jsSupabaseExpoTMDBGoogle Books

Contact Us

The cafe is always open for those who know where to look.