Kevin Bowers
Chief Science Officer Head Of Research And Development at Jump Trading LLC
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Bowers is a Chief Science Officer and R&D leader with deep expertise in high-performance scientific computing, algorithm design, and low-latency trading systems. With a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a career spanning Los Alamos, D.E. Shaw Research, and Jump Trading, he has architected flagship codes and hardware-aware software that scaled to petaflop-class supercomputers and production trading clusters. He routinely blends physics, EE, math and CS to deliver breakthrough algorithms (VPIC, Desmond/Anton contributions) and has hands-on experience optimizing everything from assembly and SIMD to distributed MPI at extreme data rates. Currently leading research at Jump, he also contributes to open-source projects such as Jump Crypto’s Firedancer Solana validator, reflecting a continued interest in real-world, high-throughput systems. Notably, his work couples deep theoretical methods with practical engineering—often achieving orders-of-magnitude performance gains on both simulation and production platforms.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMathematics, Mathematics at The University of AkronB.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (15)
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distributed-systems8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firedancer-io/firedancer
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana validator software.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 391 commits, 118 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around the development of the Firedancer Solana validator software. The commits demonstrate work on the build system, including the creation of a make-based build system and integration of various build configuration files. Furthermore, the user implemented bit manipulation APIs.
jumpsolanaconsensusblockchaincrypto
pyth-network/pyth-client
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Client API for on-chain pyth programs
Contributions:97 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
api-clientapipythonpythethereum
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