Matt Timmons-brown
Software Engineer at Jump Trading
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Timmons-Brown is a software engineer at Jump Trading with 12 years of hands-on experience building low-latency systems, machine learning applications, and robotics software across startups and major tech firms. He earned a CS/AI master’s from UPenn as a Thouron Scholar after graduating top of his class in Computer Science at Edinburgh, and has shipped production code at Amazon, Arrival, and multiple Jump internships. His background spans C++, Python, ROS, and PyTorch, with notable work in post-trade analytics, motion planning, and computer vision that tied ML prototypes to measurable operational gains. Before industry roles he contributed to academic robotics research and open-source motion-planning tools, and he authored a best-selling Raspberry Pi robotics book and ran a popular tutorial YouTube channel with millions of views. Comfortable collaborating directly with quants, traders, and research teams, he blends research rigor with production-focused engineering. Based in Chicago, he’s active in mentoring and open to conversations about startups and technical collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of EdinburghMSE, Computer & Information Science (CIS), Artificial Intelligence, MSE, Computer & Information Science (CIS), Artificial Intelligence at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (94)
displays10
digital-signage10
pi10
youtube10
lcd10
i2c10
trajectory-optimization10
raspberry10
robotics9
casadi9
adafruit9
code-generation9
ros9
motion-planning9
raspberry-pi9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
the-raspberry-pi-guy/lcd
Aug 2015 - Oct 2021
This repository contains all of the code for interfacing with a 16x2 Character I2C LCD Display. This accompanies my YouTube tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR5XhHYzUK0
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 13 PRs in 6 years 2 months
raspberry-pii2clcdyoutube-tutorialyoutube
ipab-slmc/nextage_core
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 review, 51 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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