Most people in energy markets end up in trading or engineering. For fifteen years I've been in both — trading power in real-time while building the quantitative systems that made better decisions possible.
I've modelled the entire western electrical grid end-to-end, built distributed platforms processing tens of thousands of simulations, and shipped production software into environments governed by NERC reliability standards. I started writing code independently while sitting at a trading desk, because the tools I needed didn't exist.
Today I build AI-native platforms where domain knowledge is the differentiator. The rare part isn't knowing Python or Go — it's knowing what the software is actually for.