Botao Jia
Software Engineer at Jump Trading LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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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.
8 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, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
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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