Gerald Candy
Risk Strategist
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGerald Candy is a Risk Strategist and C++-focused quantitative developer with 10 years’ experience building financial risk and XVA systems for major institutions including Vitol, Citi, and SMBC Nikko. With a Master’s in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College, he blends rigorous math with hands-on Linux and low-level C++ engineering—earlier work includes hardware drivers for Linux-based betting terminals and geometric algorithms for simulation. He has a strong interest in Boost and performance-conscious design, applying that to equity derivatives pricing and firm-wide risk tooling. Comfortable both in production risk operations and deep implementation detail, he often bridges quant models and robust engineering to deliver auditable, high-performance systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at University of Brighton
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Github Skills (15)
poker10
solver9
calculator9
algorithm6
compiler-optimization6
stack6
constants6
casting6
cin6
filesystem6
javascript6
assembly6
boost6
gambling6
python6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sweeterthancandy/CandyAlgoAdjointDiff
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
sweeterthancandy/scrabble_solver
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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