Summary
George Koubbe is a Trading Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building production trading and financial systems, currently contributing to Quantitative Brokers after rotations at Barclays. He blends strong foundations in C/C++, Python and system design with front-end expertise in Angular/TypeScript, delivering accessible, well-tested single-page applications and resilient backend tooling. His academic work in ECE and robotics led to practical HPC, ML and ROS experience—optimizing SVR hyperparameters on HPCs and simulating KUKA robots—bringing a rare hardware-to-cloud perspective to trading tech. At Barclays he improved accessibility, internationalization and achieved high test coverage, while earlier roles show deep embedded and instrumentation experience from motor controllers to desktop C++ apps. Fluent in Spanish and English and based in Morristown, NJ, he pairs an engineer’s rigor with an artist’s sensibility, enjoying guitar, finance research and sports outside work. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often connects low-level hardware insights to high-level trading software improvements.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering, Graduated with Honors: cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering, Graduated with Honors: cum laude at Universidad Simón Bolívar
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.75, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.75 at Rutgers University
Spanish, English, Arabic