Susan Potter
Lead Quantitative Developer
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolSusan Potter is a Lead Quantitative Developer with 19 years of experience building production-hardened trading systems, distributed data pipelines, and reliable cloud services. She combines deep functional-programming expertise (Haskell, Scala, PureScript, Nix) with pragmatic delivery practices to move research-grade strategies into automated, regulated trading environments. Susan has led cross-functional teams at financial institutions and SaaS companies, driving CI/CD, observability, and cloud cost optimizations while reducing AWS spend and MTTR. Her background spans low-latency risk systems, algorithmic strategy research, and hands-on integrations with trading APIs and domain-specific scripting languages. Known for bridging research and operations, she focuses on throughput and time-to-completion tradeoffs when designing ML-ready pipelines. Based in Illinois, she pairs a mathematics degree from Manchester with a tinkerer’s love of re-imagining software through functional tooling.
19 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (183)
nix10
ruby10
purescript10
nixos10
linux10
vagrant10
rebar10
concurrent10
nixpkgs10
conventions10
stm10
asynchronous10
porting10
homebrew10
expression-language9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mbbx6spp/effpee
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Learning material
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 11 months
referentiallabs/referentiallabs.github.io
Jun 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:79 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 11 months
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