Summary
Richard Berg is a Quantitative Developer with 10+ years of experience building and hardening mission-critical software across top-tier trading firms and banks, currently at Jump Trading. He combines deep Microsoft-stack expertise with fluency in Python, Java, SQL and low-level languages, repeatedly modernizing legacy systems, improving QA at scale, and shipping production tools that bridge quant, trading, and engineering teams. His background includes architecting release-impact analytics for Bank of America, migrating FX systems to Athena at J.P. Morgan, and dramatically boosting test throughput and compliance at Goldman Sachs. Known for thriving in both greenfield and entrenched-codebase environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for automating repeatable deployments and audit-ready workflows. Outside engineering he sings professionally as a bass-baritone, reflecting a disciplined, collaborative approach that surfaces in cross-functional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Computer Science, Music, A.B., Computer Science, Music at Duke University
Alamo Heights High School