# Team Surge is developed by contributors with direct experience operating high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems in financial and distributed environments. Core contributors have worked in: * Real-time execution systems * Quantitative trading infrastructure * Distributed systems engineering * Security-sensitive runtime environments This experience informs Surge’s architectural priorities: * Deterministic ordering * Bounded failure domains * Operational predictability under stress * Measurable execution integrity Surge’s design reflects exposure to environments where: * Latency asymmetry creates economic distortion * Unbounded concurrency introduces systemic risk * Settlement ambiguity produces material loss The protocol is built by individuals who have operated within those constraints. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://surgelabs.gitbook.io/surge-whitepaper/team.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.