Francis Smith
Retiree at Hiking Skiing & Pickleball
Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Smith is a retired quantitative software developer with 12 years of industry experience and a long career building and maintaining equity-focused quantitative models and data systems for major asset managers. He combines a strong technical foundation (MS in Computer Science, BA in Mathematics) with hands-on proficiency in Matlab, SQL, VBA, Perl, SAS and vision-based databases, having implemented factor libraries and data warehouses that power investment decisions. Known as an excellent programmer and problem-solver, he has led development in State Street Global Advisors’ Advanced Research Center and supported portfolio teams at Putnam and PanAgora. Comfortable in UNIX/Linux toolchains and still using vim and git, he blends old-school engineering discipline with modern version control practices. Based in Swampscott, MA, he now balances an analytical mindset with outdoor pursuits like hiking, skiing and pickleball.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of New HampshireMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (112)
python10
bash10
maven-extension10
multiple-languages10
ssh10
leiningen10
ansible10
powershell10
shell10
cli10
erlang10
elixir10
todolist10
sonatype10
asdf10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rfrancis/asdf-nim
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
nim plugin for the asdf version manager
Contributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
asdfversion-managernim
rfrancis/asdf-gradle
Jul 2017 - Sep 2022
gradle plugin for the asdf version manager
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 5 years 2 months
leiningengradlesonatypekotlin-dslresharper
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