Ian Kaplan
Consultant, Software Engineering at Bon Bini Bay BV
Kralendijk, Bonaire Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba
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Top SchoolIan Kaplan is a Principal-level software engineer and architect with 12+ years building scalable, secure web applications and quantitative trading systems from the cloud to the JVM. As founder of Topstone Software and creator of the nderground social network, he blends hands-on full-stack Java/Groovy development with AWS architecture, database design (Postgres, DynamoDB, Neo4j) and search technologies. He also applies advanced quantitative finance expertise—earned via a Computational Finance master's—to design intraday trading engines and market models. Ian’s background includes research-grade work on semantic graph query languages and high-performance C++/Qt embedded systems at Lawrence Livermore, showing depth across databases, compilers and distributed systems. Based in Bonaire, he brings consulting agility across time zones and a proven knack for turning complex, security-sensitive requirements into production-grade services. Less obvious: he’s published technical reports on graph query implementation and maintains open-source tooling such as javaorc, reflecting both research rigor and practical engineering.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computational Finance and Risk Management, 3.6/4.0, Masters, Computational Finance and Risk Management, 3.6/4.0 at University of Washington
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Github Skills (17)
aws-sdk10
amazon10
java9
aws9
sdk8
dns6
amazon-s36
spring-boot6
amazon-web-services6
grails6
ajax6
postgresql6
freemarker6
java2d3
image-scaling3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IanLKaplan/javaorc
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 28 days
IanLKaplan/pairs_trading
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 136 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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