Robert Douglas
Senior Software Engineer at Jump Trading
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Douglas is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience building ultra low-latency exchange connectivity and polished cross-platform UIs using C++, Qt, and .NET. He has a strong track record in high-frequency trading firms and standards work, previously representing his employer to the C++ international committee (PL22.16/WG21). Comfortable across the stack, he blends performance-critical backend libraries with desktop GUI craftsmanship and has repeatedly led hiring and technical recruitment efforts. Based in Chicago, he moves between hands-on development and public-facing work as a budding YouTube presenter, signaling an appetite for communication and teaching. His background includes both contract entrepreneurship and long-tenured roles at trading firms, giving him a pragmatic mix of delivery, tooling, and product-facing experience. Colleagues rely on him for low-latency engineering expertise and thoughtful integration of UI and systems-level concerns.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Computer Science, B.S.E., Computer Science at University of Michigan
Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
pandora5
gnome4
music4
cpp3
c-programming3
linux2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rwdougla/SG20
May 2020 - Dec 2023
Study Group 20: Education
Contributions:57 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 7 months
study-group
ChicagoCpp/ChicagoCpp.github.io
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Chicago C/C++ Website
Contributions:5 PRs, 56 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
chicagocpp
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