Jace Kohlmeier
Founder, CEO at Equilibrium Energy
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJace Kohlmeier is a founder and CEO with 14 years of experience building quantitative trading firms and leading research-driven teams at the intersection of markets, hard technology, and machine learning. He runs KQR, a proprietary trading company, and has held senior roles including Head of HFT at Citadel, co-founder and President at Teza, and Dean of Data Science at Khan Academy, reflecting deep expertise across finance, education, and applied ML. An active investor and advisor—Equity Partner at Data Collective and LP Advisor at Nyca Partners—he combines operator instincts with venture and advisory experience. He’s shipped front-end educational tooling for Khan Academy early in his career, showing a practical bent for product-focused engineering as well as research. Based in Palo Alto, he brings rigorous CS training from Princeton and a math/CS BS from Kansas State to bear on climate-focused ventures and energy trading work. Notably, he pairs high-frequency trading pedigree with a public-facing commitment to climate solutions and writing about ML and markets.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
khan-academy10
math9
mathematics9
probability9
css6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/khan-exercises
Aug 2011 - Feb 2013
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jace primarily contributed to the development of interactive exercises within a Khan Academy framework. The commits demonstrate the creation and modification of HTML files, JavaScript code, and variable definitions to build probability exercises. The changes involve implementing new question types, refining the user interface, and integrating hints to aid user understanding. The contributions focus on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the exercises.
khan-academy
kohlmeier/memfinity
Jul 2013 - Dec 2014
social spaced repetition system
Contributions:102 commits in 1 year 4 months
djangospaced-repetition-systemrepetitionspacedspaced-repetition
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