Alex Samuel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Samuel is a senior technologist with 11 years of experience building systematic trading systems and developer platforms, most recently serving as a Director at Tudor Investment Corporation where he bridged quantitative strategy and engineering. He has a strong quantitative pedigree (PhD-level physics training) and a track record at research-driven trading firms including D.E. Shaw, Two Sigma, and Getco, focused on volatility, options market making, and Python-based modeling productivity. Equally at home in production engineering and research tooling, he has shipped ML and backend systems at ActionIQ and improved developer environments and modeling languages at Two Sigma. Alex contributes to open-source tooling as a full-stack developer—most notably expanding Python bindings and input/event handling for the notcurses TUI library—demonstrating attention to ergonomics and low-level interfaces. Based in New York, he is selective about employer fit and explicitly avoids roles at hedge funds, HFTs, banks, and crypto firms, signaling a preference for certain cultures and mission alignments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who translates complex quantitative ideas into reliable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Harvard College
Github Skills (6)
c1710
terminal-emulator10
c1110
python10
cli10
ncurses9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dankamongmen/notcurses
Feb 2022 - May 2022
blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed primarily to the Python bindings of the `notcurses` library, focusing on expanding the Python API and implementing key functionalities. They implemented the `get_blocking()` and `get_nblock()` input methods, along with adding an `NcInput` type for event handling. The user also worked on function signatures, fixed example scripts, and refactored code related to input handling and color settings.
terminal-emulators8bitrustterminaltui
twosigma/ngrid
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 4 months
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