Patrick Van Hesteren
Software Development Team Lead - Automated Trading Risk
Utrecht Area Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Van Hesteren is a seasoned software engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and guiding risk systems for high-frequency trading at Optiver. He combines deep data-science-backed technical judgment from an MSc in Data Science & Technology with hands-on architecture and large-scale data analysis expertise. As Team Lead for Automated Trading Risk he bridges low-latency production constraints and rigorous risk controls, driving delivery across cross-functional teams. Early roles at ING and startups, plus a strong academic foundation from TU Delft, give him a pragmatic yet research-informed approach to solving complex systems problems. Colleagues describe him as passionate about exploring the possibilities in large data sets and translating that curiosity into robust, auditable software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Nature and Science, VWO, Nature and Science at IJsselcollegeTU Delft
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
1,151reputation
190kreached
16answers
77questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
mobile-first10
responsive10
javascript-framework10
html10
haproxy6
php6
certbot6
jquery6
json6
ajax6
apache6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
delftswa2016/bootstrap
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 3 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
developingcssjavascriptjavascript-frameworkcss3
Pvanhesteren/GitHubMiner
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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