Francois Botha
Quantitative Solutions Architect
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolFrancois Botha is a Quantitative Solutions Architect with 12 years of experience blending actuarial science and software engineering to solve complex financial problems. He programs polyglot stacks—chiefly C# and Python—with hands-on experience in C++, MS SQL, Linux/Bash and Murex Flex Streams, turning Excel-based ALM/LDI models into production-grade systems. His open-source contributions to QuantLib/QLNet and other tooling show practical expertise in fixed-income and CPI bond pricing, negative-rate support and term-structure fixes that underpin real-world valuation accuracy. Based in Cape Town, he has driven equity derivatives tooling, Markowitz analysis in R, and robust database/schema improvements, demonstrating both quantitative depth and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues know him as a jack-of-all-trades who reliably bridges quant models and maintainable production code, with a propensity for tightening edge-case calculations that others miss.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B. Comm (Actuarial Science), B. Comm (Actuarial Science) at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (47)
datetime10
c-language10
datetime-parsing10
scripting10
net-library10
finance10
date-parsing10
batchfile10
windows-forms10
script10
date-parser10
statistical-models10
sql10
excel10
database-design10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
OpenDBDiff/OpenDBDiff
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
A database comparison tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2005+ that reports schema differences and creates a synchronization script.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 161 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Francois primarily worked on the database schema and data structure of the project. Their contributions included adding EditorConfig files, which indicates an effort to improve code formatting and maintainability, crucial for projects with multiple contributors. They also added improvements to the database schema, indicating a focus on database design, with changes including the generation of SQL scripts and implementing filters to improve the functionality of the tool.
reportssql-serversqlservermysqlsynchronization
amaggiulli/QLNet
May 2014 - Feb 2021
QLNet C# Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 94 commits, 58 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Francois primarily focused on modifying and implementing features within the QLNet C# Library. Their contributions included fixing calculations, enabling negative rates, implementing changes from an external QuantLib commit, and implementing parameters for CPIBonds. These changes involved modifications to C# code files related to term structures, cash flows, and instruments within the quantitative finance library.
c-librarysecquantlibc-sharpcsharp
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