Jake Fevold
Senior Software Engineer at Chicago Trading Company
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Fevold is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 4 years of focused C++ experience and a longer history building embedded and industrial control software. He has progressed from embedded systems and PLC work into senior roles at Bloomberg, where he specialized in concurrency and core library development for the Bloomberg Development Environment. Jake contributes to high-profile open-source C++ foundations (e.g., bloomberg/bde), improving thread safety and time-queue behavior—work that highlights attention to low-level correctness and multi-threaded design. Currently at Chicago Trading Company, he applies that concurrency expertise to demanding, performance-sensitive systems. Trained in mathematics and computer science at the University of Iowa, he blends rigorous analytic thinking with practical systems engineering. Colleagues rely on him for robust, well-documented solutions in complex, real-time codebases.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at University of Iowa
German
Github Skills (5)
cpp-library10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
multithreading10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
bloomberg/bde
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Basic Development Environment - a set of foundational C++ libraries used at Bloomberg.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake contributed to the C++ library by implementing and refining core functionalities. Their work includes updates to the `deleteQueue` method within `bdlmt_multiqueuethreadpool.h`, adding thread safety notes and clarifications to `bdlcc_cache.h`, and adding a `countLE` method to `bdlcc_timequeue`. These changes involved modifying existing code, adding new features, and improving documentation related to multi-threading and time-based queuing, demonstrating a focus on core library features and thread safety.
cppallocatorspolymorphic-allocatorsbloombergc-plus-plus
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