Joshua Zimmerman
Co-Founder & CTO at VRGL
California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Zimmerman is a seasoned fintech CTO and co-founder with 11 years of leadership experience and a two-decade career in quantitative finance, risk analytics, and technology. He has managed multi-asset portfolios and engineered hedging and risk systems for institutions like Wells Fargo, translating complex derivatives and fixed-income risk into production-ready analytics and portfolio optimization tools. At VRGL he combines product-level technical leadership with hands-on engineering to drive cost-efficient, performance-focused solutions, having previously led R&D and risk analytics teams at Solovis. His background in nuclear engineering and mathematics underpins a methodical, data-driven approach, and he has a track record of building real-time pricing engines, automated market-data pipelines, and hedge accounting systems. Known as a coach and advocate for technology, Joshua brings institutional trading rigor to startup-scale product development and risk-aware platform design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Nuclear Engineering, BS, Nuclear Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at The City College of New YorkMachine Learning, Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Science at Coursera
EnglishGithub contributions (2)
newmath/FuturesAndOptionsTradingSimulation
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
newmath/ExData_Plotting1
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
data-analysispythonexploratoryplottingexploratory-data-analysis
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