Alan King
Wanderer at Ars Probabilitas
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan King is a quantitative computing expert with 22 years of experience applying stochastic optimization, high-performance computing, and deep learning to finance, insurance, and production-inventory problems. He led research and development teams at IBM and spent decades at IBM TJ Watson Research Center building massively parallel solutions for options pricing, asset-liability management, and multi-period stochastic programs. A PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington, he mentors PhD-level researchers and bridges rigorous modeling with production-grade systems engineering. He also explored decentralized finance and continues to consult through his Ars Probabilitas venture, bringing uncommon fluency in both mathematical modeling and scalable implementation.
23 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applied Mathematics, PhD, Applied Mathematics at University of Washington
Github Skills (92)
ipython10
multi-user10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
sqlalchemy10
sql9
api9
docker-desktop9
python9
stochastic9
jupyterhub9
algorithms9
orm9
logging9
jupyter-notebook9
golang8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
coin-modeling-dev/simple-model
Mar 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
coin-modeling-dev/mosdex-python
Mar 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:10 releases, 24 PRs, 105 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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