Brian Peterson
Managing Member at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Riverside, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Peterson is a seasoned quantitative trading executive with 22+ years building, deploying, and running live production trading systems where his own capital was routinely at risk. As founder and managing member of quantStrat and Braverock, and former head of algo trading at firms like FalconX and DV Trading, he blends deep statistical and software engineering skills with practical market execution, low-latency systems, and advanced ML/AI techniques. He is an active R contributor—maintaining a suite of finance packages and administrating R’s participation in Google Summer of Code—and an educator who designed and taught quantitative trading courses at UIUC and UW. Brian’s experience spans crisis navigation and governance (notably steering a crypto exchange through fraud discovery and regulatory cooperation) as well as creating production-grade portfolio and execution infrastructure. Trained in computational physics and computer science, he is comfortable moving from high-performance research to robust, revenue-driving production systems.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Physics and Computer Science, Computational Physics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (124)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
R-Finance/blotter
Nov 2009 - Apr 2014
Contributions:243 commits in 4 years 5 months
braverock/blotter
Dec 2009 - Aug 2022
blotter provides transaction infrastructure for defining transactions, portfolios and accounts for trading systems and simulation. Provides portfolio support for multi-asset class and multi-currency portfolios. Actively maintained and developed.
Contributions:2 reviews, 320 commits, 10 PRs in 12 years 9 months
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