Kieren Pearson
Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolKieren Pearson is a self-taught C++ software engineer with 11 years’ experience specializing in low-latency trading systems, currently building market-facing infrastructure at Citadel Securities. He has a proven track record at market makers including VivCourt Trading and Akuna Capital, where he worked closely with traders to optimise strategy implementation, reduce latency and enhance pricing models using modern C++ (C++17/20). A meticulous and highly organised problem-solver, Kieren transitioned from Windows desktop development into high-frequency trading, bringing a pragmatic engineering mindset and strong attention to correctness. Based in Sydney, he pairs actuarial training from UNSW with hands-on systems engineering, bringing quantitative rigour to performance-critical code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Trinity Grammar SchoolUNSW Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
cpp10
chess-engine10
testing9
linker8
modular8
mate7
libclang7
toolchain7
clang7
vector6
bit6
boost6
pointer6
winhttp6
stdout6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KierenP/Pyrrhic
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
Fathom, for Humanoids.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
javahumanoidsfathom
KierenP/Halogen
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
C++ chess engine
Contributions:19 releases, 1 review, 1626 commits in 4 years 10 months
chess-enginecppc-plus-plus
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