Matthew Sanders
Options Quant Lead at IMC Trading
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Sanders is an Options Quant Lead with 14 years of quantitative and software engineering experience, currently driving options research and strategy at IMC Trading. He blends deep systems-level programming (C++, C#, Python, Erlang, Java, MATLAB, SQL, BASH) with large-scale data mining, processing, visualization and graph analysis expertise honed across trading and academic research roles. His background includes algorithmic trading engineering at Optiver, visiting research at MIT, and research posts at Princeton and Harvard where he applied semantic analysis and genomic modeling—skills that inform his quantitative approach to markets. FINRA Series 7 and exchange certifications complement his technical foundation, enabling him to bridge regulatory, research, and production trading workflows. Known for independent large-scale graph analyses (documented on his website), he brings a rare mix of production-grade coding, research rigor, and practical market experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (31)
java-bindings9
json-objects9
gson8
annotation-processor8
moshi8
jackson8
gwt8
java8
value-objects8
jsinterop8
immutable-collections7
collections7
jax-rs6
pure-python6
time-series6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mattomatic/go-bitcoin
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 26 days
mattomatic/kosaraju
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 15 days
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