Joseph Howarth
Quantitative Developer
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Howarth is a quantitative developer with nine years of engineering experience building distributed systems and low-latency trading infrastructure, currently at Jump Trading. He combines a dual background in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tufts with hands-on systems work at Palantir—owning backend microservices, API design, and fleet-wide feature rollout on the Apollo continuous delivery platform. His internship at Ab Initio produced a persistent weight-balanced interval tree with 100x–1000x performance gains, showing deep algorithmic and C++ optimization skills. Comfortable across languages from Go and Rust to C++ and Python, he also has experience in deep learning with TensorFlow and hobby projects in Haskell and Unity. A Polyhack finalist and TripAdvisor special award winner, he pairs rigorous technical problem-solving with cross-team consensus-building and validation practices. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings both production-grade engineering discipline and a curiosity for elegant data-structure and systems-level solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (105)
interoperability10
historical10
wormhole10
solidity10
golang10
rust10
map-generation10
babylonjs10
reference-implementation10
blockchain10
game-engine9
javascript9
data-driven9
game-development9
simulation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JoeHowarth/JoeHowarth.github.io
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 1 month
JoeHowarth/Population-Simulation
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 8 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 years 1 month
map-generationrustjavascriptbabylonjssimulation
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