Sacha Schmid
Senior Investments Advisor Trader at SECTRAM PARTNERS SA
Savosa, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSacha Schmid is a Senior Investments Advisor and Trader based in Savosa, Ticino, with 14 years' experience managing portfolios and trading global equity, fixed income and derivatives markets. He combines formal MBA training and a diploma in Technical Analysis with hands-on execution as a dealer, offering deep technical-analysis insight alongside practical market-making skills. Equally comfortable in code, Sacha contributes to open-source projects ranging from front-end JavaScript utilities that enhance UX to back-end Ruby tooling, demonstrating a rare blend of finance and developer craftsmanship. His work on cross-browser optimizations and Liquid lexer improvements shows attention to performance, interoperability and robust testing—traits he applies to risk management and trading systems. This intersection of engineering rigor and market savvy enables him to translate complex market signals into disciplined investment actions.
13 years of coding experience
Diploma, Technical Analysis, Diploma, Technical Analysis at IFTAMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration at SUPSI
Spanish, German, French, Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
ruby10
liquid10
javascript10
lib10
regex10
syntax-highlighting10
testing10
documentation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RadLikeWhoa/Countable
Mar 2013 - Sep 2020
Add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 197 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sacha primarily contributed to enhancing and refining the functionality of the JavaScript library. They implemented cross-browser compatibility, improved code formatting, optimized performance using native functions, and added features like sentence and character counting. The user also improved documentation and contribution guidelines, and fixed bugs related to HTML tag handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and code quality.
javascriptwordshtml-elementparagraphcharacter
rouge-ruby/rouge
Jan 2015 - May 2015
A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sacha focused on enhancing the Liquid templating language support within the Rouge code highlighter. Their contributions primarily involved implementing features and fixing bugs in the Liquid lexer. Key tasks included adding functionalities to handle various Liquid tags like `assign`, `include`, and conditional statements, along with addressing issues related to output tag rendering and cycle handling. Additionally, the user added a test spec to validate the implementation.
pure-rubyrubyhighlightercode-highlighterpygments
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