Ethan Havemann
Software Engineer at Optiver
Coppell, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Havemann is a software engineer based in Coppell, Texas with four years of experience building low-latency trading and cloud orchestration systems. Currently on the Delta One HFT team at Optiver after internships in HFT execution and ultra-scale compute at Optiver and Amazon, he focuses on performant, production-grade systems engineering. A Northwestern Computer Engineering and Mathematics student who founded the Northwestern Fintech Club, he blends quantitative thinking with practical software craft. Known for a preference for "fast code" and a growing enthusiasm for Rust, he pairs speed-conscious design with hands-on implementation across distributed and high-throughput domains.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Mathematics at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
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google-sheet3
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
northwesternfintech/2025QuantInternships
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Public quant internship repository, maintained by NUFT but available for everyone.
Contributions:51 reviews, 40 commits, 50 PRs in 2 months
quantinternship
walkway-project/utils
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Public Host of Walkway Project Utilities
Contributions:16 reviews, 46 PRs, 48 pushes in 7 months
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