John Hester
President at Techtricity
Orland Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hester is a seasoned technology executive with two decades of IT experience in financial services, currently leading Techtricity as President. He has deep expertise in enterprise architecture, low-latency trading systems, exchange connectivity, market data and order routing, and a track record of delivering complex infrastructure on time and on budget. Prior roles include lead architect at IBM and Managing Director of Software and Systems Architecture at BNY ConvergEx LiquidPoint, where he bridged software engineering and operational needs for mission-critical trading platforms. Trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic technology management. Based in Orland Park, Illinois, he’s known for translating high-performance requirements into practical, maintainable architectures that scale under real-world market pressure.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (9)
dpdk10
aio10
async10
server-side10
server9
high-performance9
http-server9
seastar8
application-framework8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
techtricity/swatcher
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 50 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
techtricity/seastar
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
High performance server-side application framework
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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