Summary
Miguel Vigil is a Senior Software Engineer and private quantitative investor with eight years of experience building systematic, algorithmic trading systems and production-grade software across aerospace and defense. He combines rigorous engineering practices with hands-on quantitative development, rapidly adopting languages and tools to prototype strategies and push them into reliable, automated pipelines. Miguel has held senior roles at Collins Aerospace and Northrop Grumman while consulting as a quantitative developer and advisory engineer, showing comfort switching between high-assurance embedded systems and data-driven trading stacks. His background in computer science, mathematics, and physics underpins a pragmatic approach to modeling, simulation, and software architecture. Based in Cedar Rapids, he pairs a trader’s discipline with an engineer’s focus on maintainability and testability—often applying lessons from private trading to improve risk-aware production systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Santiago Canyon College