Syed Abbas
Software Engineer at Old Mission
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Abbas is a software engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience building high-performance financial analytics and trading systems using Python, C++, and Go. His career spans quant-driven roles at Ronin Capital and Citadel to engineering positions at PayPal (Braintree) and currently Old Mission, giving him deep domain knowledge of markets and production-grade engineering. He excels at turning mathematical intuition from his Mathematics and Economics background into robust, low-latency software and tooling for finance. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that balances algorithmic rigor with operational reliability, and he often bridges quant research and software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Mathematics, Economics, B.A, Mathematics, Economics at Lawrence UniversityO - Levels, Mathematics, Physics, O - Levels, Mathematics, Physics at Happy Home School KarachiA-Levels, Mathematics, Physics, A-Levels, Mathematics, Physics at Karachi Grammar School
Urdu
Github Skills (57)
networking9
swift-package-manager9
swift9
certificate-pinning8
urlsession8
python8
alamofire8
machine-learning8
scheduler8
currying8
javascript8
monitor8
data-science7
urlrequest7
apache7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skabbass1/escape
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 8 months
pythonsimple-terminalpython3terminalterminal-styling
skabbass1/sepoy
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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