Jongman Koo
Portfolio Manager at Tower Research Capital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJongman Koo is a portfolio manager in New York with 15 years of experience blending software engineering, quantitative research, and high-frequency trading across firms like Tower Research, Two Sigma, and KCG/GETCO. He builds and operationalizes low-latency trading systems and automated research workflows, with hands-on experience in C++, Python, FIX/FAST, and machine-learning based strategies. A former programming contest competitor who runs a contest community and authored a book on the topic, he brings a competitive, test-driven mindset to trading research and strategy validation. Jongman’s background spans product-scale systems at NAVER to bespoke trading infrastructure, giving him a rare mix of web-scale engineering and ultra-low-latency market microstructure expertise. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious and comfortable being proven wrong, which informs his iterative approach to strategy development and risk.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Yonsei University
Github Skills (4)
forum10
python10
nodejs3
javascript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jongman/book.algospot.com
Nov 2012 - Oct 2016
Contributions:93 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 11 months
jongman/algospot
Jul 2011 - Feb 2017
algospot.com, forum + online judge for Korean programming contestants
Contributions:731 commits, 13 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 years 8 months
pythononline-judgecontestantsforumkorean
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