John Ricklefs
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Impilo
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ricklefs is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech and startup environments. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles at Quantopian to infrastructure leadership as VP and then managed engineering at Robinhood before joining early-stage ventures as a founding engineer and now a senior staff at Impilo. John blends deep infrastructure and operations expertise with product-focused execution, helping scale systems that support trading and financial workflows. Based in Medford, MA, he brings a track record of navigating both rapid startup pivots and regulated, high-availability platforms—an engineer comfortable shipping code, managing teams, and designing resilient systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Boston College
Github Skills (48)
python10
trading10
finance10
pythonic10
trading-bot10
brain-computer-interface10
zipline10
backtesting-trading-strategies10
editing10
algorithmic-trading10
jupyter9
jupyterlab9
grid9
pyfolio9
jupyter-widget9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
quantopian/MongoDBProxy
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Proxy around MongoDB connection that automatically handles AutoReconnect-exceptions.
Contributions:2 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
autoreconnectproxymongodb-connectionconnectionexceptions
quantopian/qgrid
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
An interactive grid for sorting, filtering, and editing DataFrames in Jupyter notebooks
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 11 months
dataframesbrain-computer-interfacejupyter-notebooksortingjupyterlab
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