Jake Kasan
Data Manager
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJake Kasan is a Data Manager and engineer with eight years’ experience applying quantitative and big-data techniques across financial services, healthcare, and education tech. He has built cloud data pipelines and standardisation processes on Azure using PySpark, Hive and SQL, and now leads data management at NHS Digital. Jake’s background in quantitative finance and early work parallelising Monte Carlo simulations gives him a rare blend of statistical rigour and production engineering. He’s shipped full‑stack proof‑of‑concepts using Node.js and React, showing comfort from backend data platforms to user-facing apps. Notably, he identified and fixed a flawed statistical test implementation in production early in his career, underscoring attention to correctness as well as scale. Based in Edinburgh, he combines academic distinction in quantitative finance with hands-on delivery of auditable, cloud-native data solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Finance, General, 2:1, Bachelor's degree, Finance, General, 2:1 at University of AberdeenMasters, Quantitative Finance, Distinction, Masters, Quantitative Finance, Distinction at University of Strathclyde
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jakekasan/blockhead
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
jakekasan/meals-js
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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