Summary
Kyle Jensen is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems and secure data platforms across FinTech and proprietary data industries. He has a strong applied mathematics background and a track record of designing algorithms, from-scratch platforms, and debugging/modernizing legacy architectures in C/C++, Rust, Python and R. At Computer Projects of Illinois and Nanex he worked on messaging systems, custom protocols and parallelized core engines that reduced latency, while also managing version migrations and mentoring engineers. As a freelancer and co-founder he delivered decentralized applications, trading algorithms, GAN-based R&D work and full-stack crypto exchange components, showing both research depth and product focus. Based in Chicago, he combines hands-on low-level engineering with client-facing visualization and modeling experience, and is comfortable moving between embedded code and cloud-forward web stacks. An uncommon strength is his blend of deep systems-level optimization experience with practical R&D creativity applied to proprietary trading and secure-data projects.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
North Central College
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign