Summary
Matthew Hassel is a Senior Linux Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining high-reliability infrastructure for quantitative trading and financial services firms. Based in Chicago, he specializes in Linux systems, Bash and Python automation, DevOps practices, and configuration management, with a track record at Chicago Trading Company and DRW. Matthew combines deep operational rigor—from mainframes and iSeries to VMware ESXi and modern Linux stacks—with scripting and tooling that reduce toil and accelerate deployments. He has repeatedly bridged desktop, server, and platform support roles early in his career, which gives him practical insight into how operator workflows shape resilient systems. Often engaged in subtle process improvements, he has saved substantial vendor costs and automated repeatable tasks across teams.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at University of Southern Indiana