Matthias Kauer
Senior Developer at Citadel Securities
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolMatthias Kauer is a senior developer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, concurrent systems for the financial industry, currently at Citadel Securities. He combines a strong quantitative foundation—PhD work in control, timing analysis and numerical methods—with hands-on expertise in modern C++ and Python to architect high-performance trading infrastructure. His background spans academia and industry, including algorithmic trading roles and more than 15 publications on embedded timing and battery management systems, reflecting a rigorous approach to system reliability and optimization. Comfortable with agile practices, he focuses on communication and architecture of concurrent systems to shave microseconds while preserving correctness. Based in Hong Kong, he has blended formal numerical training with practical market knowledge and is pursuing CFA studies, signaling a rare mix of deep technical and financial domain fluency.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Technomathematik, Diplom, Technomathematik at Technische Universität München / TU MunichElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityAbitur, Abitur at Dante Gymnasium München
German, English, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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3answers
9questions
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Github Skills (181)
web-application10
vim-plugin10
vim10
backup10
command-line-tool10
vundle10
vimwiki10
console-application10
pandas9
ledger9
yaml9
fast-csv9
julia9
cli9
grav9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
MatthiasKauer/croncoat
Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
A cron job wrapper with better error email reporting and command timeouts.
Contributions:101 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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MatthiasKauer/tim
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
A simple time tracker with powerful aggregation via hledger
Contributions:110 commits, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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