Mark Kogan
Self Employed
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Kogan is a versatile software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building full-stack products, data analytics platforms, and fintech systems for startups, hedge funds, and enterprise clients. He has led product and engineering teams at The D. E. Shaw Group/Arcesium and MANA Partners, delivering production-grade trading infrastructure, vectorized data analysis tools, and commercialization-ready products that attracted major institutional attention. As founder of KoganApps he acted as technical co-founder and outsourced CTO for multiple clients, managing global teams and end-to-end lifecycles from wireframes to deployment. His background spans applied ML, high-frequency trading systems, ETL and BI pipelines, and domain-specific tooling informed by deep familiarity with SEC filings and financial datasets. Now self-employed and running a student employment service, he combines hands-on engineering with product strategy and stakeholder governance—an advisor who bridges quant research, software craftsmanship, and go-to-market execution. An early researcher in formal models and a builder of custom DSLs and trading languages, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic delivery to complex technical problems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School SouthBS In Computer Science and Business Finance General, BS In Computer Science and Business Finance General at Lehigh University
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (12)
ipywidgets10
data-visualisation10
visualization10
bokeh10
jupyter10
altair9
python9
pyodide9
javascript9
holoviews9
browser9
data-visualization8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
gangtan/CPUmodels
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:55 commits in 1 year 4 months
frg316/mkfgdemo
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 days
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