Reece Heineke is a Principal Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building predictive models and production software for securities trading and alternative finance. He progressed from trade developer and senior trade analyst roles in market-making to leadership positions shaping analytics, risk, and product strategy at Strike Technologies and Credibly. His background—anchored by a PhD in Physics from Cambridge—combines quantitative rigor with hands-on engineering, enabling him to translate complex financial signals into scalable systems. Known for marrying empirical modeling with agile delivery, he has a track record of shipping trading and lending infrastructure that informs M&A, pricing, and risk decisions. A less obvious strength is his ability to straddle deep research and pragmatic productization, turning academic-level models into operational advantages for fast-moving financial teams.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Cambridge
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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