Gerard Sweeney
Developer at Virtu Financial
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGerard Sweeney is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in high-performance C++ for low-latency, mission-critical systems. He has built and verified complex hardware-adjacent software at Intel and has been delivering production trading and quant systems at G-Research, KCG and Virtu Financial since 2011. Gerard combines first-class analytical and design skills with a pragmatic focus on squeezing out performance while maintaining correctness under pressure. Comfortable in multiple languages (Java, C#, Python), he stays actively engaged with the development community to adopt the latest techniques. Based in England, he’s selective about opportunities and prefers technically interesting, well-scoped challenges that leverage his hardware-software boundary expertise. A detail that often surprises peers: much of his value comes from writing precise high-level C++ models to validate and predict hardware behavior, not just micro-optimizations.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class at National University of Ireland, Galway
Github Skills (3)
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react4
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dragon12/developing_scripts
May 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 5 years
dragon12/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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