Joshua Diamond
Vice President at Guggenheim Partners
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Diamond is a Vice President based in New York with six years of experience specializing in structured finance, debt capital markets, and money markets, managing multi-billion-dollar special debt programs at Guggenheim Partners. He combines hands-on portfolio management and trading across instruments like commercial paper, FX swaps, repos, equity options, and fixed income derivatives with strategic risk and liquidity oversight. Joshua’s background includes entrepreneurial and advisory work—founding an undergraduate consulting group and advising 20+ startups—which complements his institutional finance skillset with operational and community-focused experience. He also brings technical curiosity to his work, contributing embedded-systems firmware to the popular QMK open-source keyboard project, demonstrating practical hardware-software integration skills not typical for finance professionals. Educated at Tulane and LSE, he blends rigorous finance training with a track record of cross-disciplinary problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who translates complex financial mechanics into executable trading and funding strategies.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Abington Friends SchoolBachelor of Science in Management Finance Management, Bachelor of Science in Management Finance Management at Tulane UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
keyman10
qmk10
c-programming10
c1110
keymaps10
c1710
keymapping10
sys10
rgb10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
chromeos8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 59 commits, 116 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributes to the firmware for QMK, an open-source keyboard firmware. Their work focuses on customizing keymaps, including the addition of specialized layouts for specific hardware (75_ansi boards, DMQDesign Spin, Durgod K320). They implement and refine RGB lighting features (e.g., twinkle effects, layer indicators), integrate ChromeOS-specific keycodes, and address issues related to bootloader behavior and Unicode input, demonstrating a strong understanding of embedded systems and hardware integration. This includes improvements to the overall system, such as sleep and wake-up functionality.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
spidey3/qmk_firmware
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:1583 pushes, 145 branches, 136 tags in 2 years 8 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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