Colin Swaney
Lead Research Software Engineer at Princeton University
New York, United States
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Top SchoolColin Swaney is a Lead Research Software Engineer with a decade of experience applying econometrics, machine learning, and data engineering to financial and social science research. He holds a PhD in Finance and built a computationally intensive model of high-frequency limit order book dynamics during his dissertation, blending deep quantitative insight with scalable software development. At Princeton he progressed from Research Software Engineer to leading technical solutions for campus-wide data initiatives, often filling gaps across backend, ML, and web stacks. He has industry experience deploying data-driven models for income verification and building quantitative research infrastructure for global equity selection. Comfortable learning new tools as needed—recently adopting Julia—Colin pairs rigorous academic training with practical product-oriented execution. In his spare time he channels the same discipline into long runs and voracious reading.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Cloud Developer, Nanodegree, Cloud Developer at UdacityBachelor of Science, Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Economics at Kansas State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Finance, Doctor of Philosophy, Finance at University of Iowa
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
princeton-ddss/blackfish
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) for busy researchers
Contributions:8 reviews, 20 PRs, 176 pushes in 6 months
cswaney/TotalViewITCH.jl
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
A toolkit to process NASDAQ TotalView-ITCH data.
Contributions:34 commits, 14 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 10 months
financejuliamicrostructure
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