Nicholas Van Der Ploeg
Quantitative Developer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Van Der Ploeg is a Quantitative Developer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building and troubleshooting low-latency trading systems and production platforms. He has progressed from support and team leadership roles at Orc to professional services and trading-strategy development at Itiviti, and now designs quantitative systems at Edgehog Trading, working across C++, Java, and Python. Known for tackling complex, performance-sensitive problems, he pairs a finance background with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, high-throughput solutions. Outside of work he pursues evolutionary biology and enjoys Swift and web programming, a combination that underscores his curiosity and propensity for cross-disciplinary thinking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Business Administration Finance, BS in Business Administration Finance at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (49)
swift9
media-keys8
closed8
chrome-extension8
filter8
dashboard8
programming-language8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
grafana7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nickvdp/RecentTabList
Mar 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 6 months
safaritabsclosedrecentlysafari-extension
nickvdp/swift
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 1 day
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
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