Joel Hock
Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoel Hock is a seasoned software engineer and leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling low-latency systems, currently helping establish Hudson River Trading's Austin office while serving on the board of the Lone Star Justice Alliance. He led core development at HRT through its earliest exponential growth and later ran a boutique consultancy delivering HFT-grade software solutions. Joel combines deep systems and infrastructure expertise with hands-on coding, recruitment, and team formation in high-performance trading environments. An MIT computer science graduate, he has a track record of turning small engineering teams into durable technical engines. Based in Austin, he prefers to collaborate and build rather than actively look for new roles, and brings a practitioner’s eye to governance and community-focused board work.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
not looking for a job
Github Skills (80)
visual-studio-code-extension10
glance10
annotations10
blame10
pair-programming10
visual-studio10
highlighting10
unlock10
modular10
youcompleteme10
browser10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joelhock/cquery
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:32 pushes, 28 branches in 9 months
basesvimvscodevscode-extensionlatency
joelhock/clang-format-linter
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Clang format linter for Phabricator
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
linterphabricatorlintclangclang-format
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