Botao Jia
Software Engineer at Jump Trading LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBotao Jia is a senior software engineer with 8+ years building low-latency, mission-critical trading systems for leading firms including Jump Trading, Citadel, and Virtue Financial. He blends deep quantitative expertise from a Physics Ph.D. at Duke with hands-on engineering across market data feeds, derivatives pricing, and high-performance trading platforms. Early roles at BlackRock and Standard Chartered cemented his strength in interest rate modeling and risk analytics, informing pragmatic, model-aware system design. Based in New York, he is comfortable at the intersection of research and production, translating complex mathematical models into reliable, low-latency code. A career pattern of moving from quant research into core trading infrastructure suggests a rare combination of theoretical rigor and systems-level execution.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Statistics, MS, Statistics at Duke UniversityBS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
cpp4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
botaojia/simplex
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
botaojia/cars
Sep 2017 - Nov 2020
web crawling + data storage + data display
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
web-crawlingdata-storagestoragecrawlingcrawler
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