Chip Kent
Founding Partner & Chief Data Scientist
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChip Kent is a Caltech-educated quantitative scientist and founding partner who blends decades of experience in math, physics, and high-performance computing to build production-grade data platforms and investment strategies. As Chief Data Scientist at Deephaven he engineered systems that make petabyte-scale, real-time datasets interactive and accessible, and previously architected high-performance trading and simulation environments that processed billions of events daily. He also runs a value-oriented quantitative investment fund, applying rigorous probabilistic reasoning to long-horizon, concentrated portfolios. His background spans nuclear-weapons simulation verification at Los Alamos to co-authoring options market-making systems and a proprietary real-time database, demonstrating rare depth across research, software engineering, and finance. An Olympic-level weightlifter and vintage car restorer, he brings the discipline of elite athletics and hands-on craftsmanship to technically demanding, high-stakes problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Chemistry, 3.8 / 4.0, PhD, Computational Chemistry, 3.8 / 4.0 at California Institute of TechnologyBA, Physics & Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics, 3.968 / 4.0 (Summa cum laude), BA, Physics & Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics, 3.968 / 4.0 (Summa cum laude) at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (141)
programming-language10
big-data10
data-analytics10
golang10
science10
julia10
brokers10
go10
data-analysis10
interactive-brokers10
root-finding9
dart9
compiler9
interpreter9
windows9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chipkent/action-julia-docker
Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
Create and publish a Docker image for a Julia application
Contributions:8 releases, 17 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 8 months
publishdocker-imagedockerjulia
chipkent/deephaven-core
May 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 653 pushes in 3 years 6 months
deephaven
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