Jace Mcpherson
Senior Software Engineer at Optiver
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJace Mcpherson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems for trading and finance. He has led and rebuilt critical reconciliation and billing tools at Citadel, and more recently focuses on risk systems at Optiver after shaping position systems with Python and C++ at Old Mission. His background spans full-stack and infrastructure work—Java, C++, Python, Kubernetes, React—and includes designing cloud-backed consumer fintech at Bundil and large-scale backend migrations at Google. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership on high-stakes, auditable systems that reconcile money and data. An early researcher in cooperative multi-robot 3D printing, he brings a habit of careful design and reproducible tooling from academia to production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science B.S. Mathematics minor Computer Science, Computer Science B.S. Mathematics minor Computer Science at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (51)
tui10
python9
youtube9
typescript9
cli9
sign-in-with-apple8
testing7
rest-api7
postman6
swift6
openapi6
graphql-client6
http-client6
nodejs6
excel6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JaceyPenny/image-to-braille
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Converts an image to Braille Unicode art
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
artasciibrailleunicode-artunicode
uark-self-assembly/webdna-frontend
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:89 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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