Michael Handschuh
Cofounder CTO at 1Konto
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Handschuh is a software engineer and technical founder with 11 years of experience building high-fidelity modeling, simulation, and distributed systems from Philadelphia. As Cofounder and CTO of 1Konto and a long-time contributor and engineering leader at QuantConnect, he has designed production trading infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and higher-fidelity simulation frameworks used for live trading and institutional workflows. His background in aerospace engineering and early work on space situational awareness inform a rigorous numerical and systems-oriented approach—he’s comfortable implementing numerical integrators for ODE/PDE systems and translating those methods into scalable cloud services. An active open-source contributor to the widely used Lean algorithmic trading engine, he has fixed core trading logic, improved data handling for options, and strengthened regression testing. Colleagues rely on him to bridge deep computational modeling with pragmatic engineering practices that keep live systems robust.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. 2011, Aerospace Engineering, B.S. 2011, Aerospace Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology
Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
regression-testing10
csharp10
algorithmic-trading10
dotnet-core10
testing9
financial-analysis8
data-analysis8
json6
git6
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working-directory6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
QuantConnect/Lean
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Data Scientist
Backend Developer & Data ScientistContributions:1 release, 61 reviews, 2559 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve expanding the regression test suite by adding a new test for the MACDTrendAlgorithm, indicating work related to core trading engine components. These changes address shortcomings in the scanning consolidator logic. The user refactored overload of Compression.Zip to improve flexibility and also fixed an Interactive Brokers pacing flag. The user also added support for handling option contracts and fixing an issue involving the underlying's quote.
algorithmic-trading-enginepythonpinescriptbacktesting-trading-strategiesc-sharp
FXCMAPI/Lean
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:33 commits in 1 month
pythonalgorithmic-tradingtrading-botalgorithmic-trading-enginequantconnect
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