Kevin Jia
Software Engineer at Jane Street
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Jia is a software engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency trading and infrastructure systems, currently working on the Options Desk at Jane Street in New York. His background includes internships across finance and large tech—Bloomberg, Quora, Google X, and others—giving him deep exposure to fixed income data, core infrastructure, and confidential R&D projects. He blends production-grade backend engineering with a quantitative, systems-oriented mindset suited for highly reliable, performance-sensitive environments. A Waterloo computer science graduate, he has repeatedly moved between finance and tech settings, suggesting both adaptability and strong technical fundamentals. Colleagues describe him as steady on a weekday—focused on shipping robust code under real-world constraints.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Lisgar Collegiate InstituteBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github contributions (5)
jia-kevin/machine-learning-thermostat
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jia-kevin/Optimizing-Transit-Routes
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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