Summary
Jace Rhea is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems, currently serving as Director at Performance Trust Capital Partners. He combines deep Microsoft-stack expertise (.NET, ASP.NET, Web API, Entity Framework, Azure) with modern web frameworks (Angular, React, node.js) and proven architecture patterns like CQRS, event-driven design, and reactive programming. Jace has a track record of delivering high-impact projects—migrating legacy platforms to MVC, implementing real-time features with SignalR, and architecting messaging solutions with NServiceBus—while coaching teams on best practices. Based in Chicago, he blends hands-on development and technical leadership across trading, risk, and client-facing systems, and holds an MS in Software Engineering. A practical polymath, he equally values elegant object- and functional-design approaches and pragmatic delivery in regulated financial environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at DePaul University
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Northern Illinois University