Summary
Thomas Scott-kunkel is a solutions engineer with roughly a decade of hands-on experience turning complex financial ideas into production software for asset managers, hedge funds, and trading desks. He blends deep quantitative trading and commodities knowledge with full-stack engineering—Python, C#, Java, JS—and cloud-first architectures on AWS and Azure to deliver cost-effective, supportable systems. As a product owner and scrum lead he has driven major migrations and DevSecOps practices that cut hardware spend by over 50% and reduced incidents to a quarter of previous levels. Thomas has led distributed teams, mentored offshore/onshore engineers, and implemented performance-critical systems (e.g., a 100x trade processing speedup) that underline his focus on practical, measurable impact. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a rare combination of trading-domain expertise and production-grade engineering.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Russian