Jimmy Carlsson
Co-Founder And CEO at ValidAlpha
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolJimmy Carlsson is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience building AI-driven systems for trading, aircraft maintenance, corporate finance and web services from Malmö, Sweden. As co-founder and CEO of ValidAlpha (and previously CTO at Century Analytics), he has led development of low-latency, multi-exchange trading platforms and research-driven machine learning models that have achieved >5 Sharpe in production. He combines deep technical chops — neural networks, genetic algorithms, distributed systems and cloud-first architectures — with hands-on product building across startups and regulated fund management. Jimmy’s background spans both academia and industry, having lectured on algorithms and developed research prototypes in network-centric defence and other domains. Pragmatic and inventive, he has a history of shipping autonomous optimization systems (from online marketing bots to trading signals) that adapt to changing environments.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer engineering, Computer engineering at Luleå University of TechnologyÖstrabo/tyresö gymnasiumMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
ember-cli8
cli7
frontend7
api6
digitization6
ember6
rails3
file-management3
ruby3
nodejs3
cli-app2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ub-digit/playbook
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:261 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
ub-digit/digital-forensis
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:278 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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