Luke Hoersten
Founder, CEO at Bitnomial
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarLuke Hoersten is a technology founder and CEO with 18 years of hands-on experience building low-latency trading systems and crypto infrastructure from Chicago. Since founding Bitnomial in 2015 he has combined quantitative trading instincts developed at Allston Trading—with roles spanning software engineering, infrastructure, algorithmic trading, and head of core technology—to ship production-grade systems under tight performance and reliability constraints. His background includes early open-source engagement as a Google Summer of Code developer and active participation in the Chicago Haskell community, signaling a preference for functional programming and rigorous engineering. Known for bridging algorithmic research and operational execution, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a practitioner’s attention to scalable, auditable systems.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
python10
windows10
terraform10
automation10
gpu10
servant10
haskell10
hosting10
ssh10
linux10
hackage10
api10
emacs10
ansible10
rust10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
michaelschade/hs-stripe
Dec 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
apistripehaskellstripe-api
bitnomial/hgrev
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018
Compile Mercurial (hg) version info into Haskell code.
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ghcmercurialhaskellcompilehackage
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