Summary
Fred Jacobowitz is a seasoned systems engineer with nine years formally counted on GitHub-adjacent profiles and a multi-decade career designing real-time price distribution and securities settlement systems for front- and back-office operations. He has led design and implementation of mission-critical trading, FX, MBS and Treasury settlement platforms for firms ranging from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to independent consulting engagements. Comfortable at the intersection of software and finance, he pairs an MSCS and BSEE with deep experience in change management and operational oversight across distributed teams and sites. As co-manager of FrednMara, he coordinates technical and business initiatives spanning locations from Valley Stream to San Diego, bringing a pragmatic, hands-on approach to running production systems. He also applies his analytical mindset beyond engineering—working in estate planning and Medicaid submission—and is unusually patient when navigating complex stakeholder environments. Known for solving real-time integration challenges, he blends hardware-level understanding from early electronic design work with decades of financial systems architecture.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSCS, Computer Science, MSCS, Computer Science at Polytechnic University
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo
English, morse code