Matthew Mcdonald
Director at Kapsia Trading
Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcdonald is a director and co-founder with 13+ years building quantitative trading businesses and electronic trading systems across Asian, European and Australian markets. He designs and implements mid- and high-frequency strategies, trading architecture and risk systems, and has led distributed front-office and engineering teams at proprietary firms and major banks. His background spans hands-on research and production software— from simulation tools using historical order books to market-making platforms and automated execution—underpinned by a PhD in robotics/vision and first-class computer science training. Comfortable at the intersection of quant research, systems architecture and trading operations, he’s known for pragmatic creativity in launching new businesses and extracting order-of-magnitude efficiency gains from automation. An underappreciated strength is his long track record of translating academic rigor into robust, production-grade trading infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics and Vision Lab, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics and Vision Lab, Computer Science at The University of Western AustraliaBA (Hons), Computer Science, Philosophy, First class honours. GPA 7.0 / 7.0, BA (Hons), Computer Science, Philosophy, First class honours. GPA 7.0 / 7.0 at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (68)
openstack-swift10
double10
sftp10
encryption10
ftp10
csv10
yandex10
snapshots10
azure-blob-storage10
ledger9
flysystem9
webdav9
golang9
pebble9
swift9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mafm/ledger.py
Apr 2013 - Jun 2018
Command-line, double-entry accounting in python. Excel and text output.
Contributions:30 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 2 months
csvaccountingpythondouble-entry-accountingdouble
mafm/ledger.fs
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 2 years 2 months
csvaccountingdouble-entry-accountingdoubleexcel
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