Braxton Mckee
Partner, CTO at A Priori Investment Management LLC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBraxton Mckee is a technology executive and entrepreneur with a decade of focused experience leading engineering and product efforts at the intersection of finance and data-intensive computing. As Partner and CTO at A Priori Investment Management and former CEO of Ufora, he has built and scaled small engineering teams, raised capital, and shipped tools that simplify distributed computation—most notably Pyfora, an open-source system that parallelizes Python without forcing API changes. His background spans quantitative research and production systems, having led mortgage credit modeling and analytics at Ellington to support multi-billion dollar capital allocations. Comfortable as a player-coach, he blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, mentoring engineers while driving product and business outcomes. Trained in mathematics (BS/MS) and armed with an MBA from Yale, he brings rigorous analytical judgment to product strategy and risk-aware engineering. Based in New York, he combines fintech domain expertise with a rare ability to make complex distributed systems accessible to everyday developers.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Math, MS, Math at Yale UniversityMBA, MBA at Yale School of Management
Github Skills (48)
parallel10
python10
parallel-python10
high-performance10
native-code10
science10
data-science9
llvm9
pandas9
ios9
cross-platform9
desktop9
machine-learning9
windows9
object-model9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
APrioriInvestments/typed_python
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
An llvm-based framework for generating and calling into high-performance native code from Python.
Contributions:3 reviews, 1272 commits, 121 PRs in 5 years 4 months
python-programmingcallingpythonnative-codecompiler
ufora/ufora
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:567 commits, 905 pushes, 77 branches in 1 year 3 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-scienceparallel
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