Thorben Wedderien
Vice President at Deutsche Bank
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThorben Wedderien is a Vice President at Deutsche Bank with seven years of structured finance and private credit experience, specializing in originating, structuring, and marketing bespoke credit solutions for direct lenders, BDCs and CLO managers. He combines rigorous analytical skills—honed building advanced CLO models and performing due diligence at EY—with client-centric origination and capital markets execution. A dual German and US-trained finance professional with strong academic performance (BBA GPA 3.89, MS Global Finance GPA 3.83) and a Harvard Business School finance certificate, he pairs technical competence with commercial instincts. Based in New York, Thorben brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach shaped by early banking roles, military staff duty, and cross-border experience from an international exchange at CSU Fullerton. Outside finance he contributes to open-source firmware for mechanical keyboards, highlighting a hands-on curiosity for embedded systems and practical tinkering that keeps his problem-solving skills sharp.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange Semester, Economics, International Exchange Semester, Economics at California State University-Fullerton, Mihaylo College of Business and EconomicsCertificate, Leading with Finance, Certificate, Leading with Finance at HBX | Harvard Business SchoolMaster’s Degree, Global Finance, GPA 3.83 / 4.00, Master’s Degree, Global Finance, GPA 3.83 / 4.00 at Fordham UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, GPA 3.89 / 4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, GPA 3.89 / 4.00 at Universität Lüneburg
English, German
Github Skills (7)
c1710
firmware10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
qmk-firmware10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vial-kb/vial-qmk
May 2022 - May 2022
QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thorben primarily contributed to the firmware of the idb 60 keyboard within the QMK ecosystem. Their work included adding keyboard definitions, modifying configuration files, and adapting keymaps. They also addressed bug fixes, incorporated improvements for the VIA and VIAL keyboard configurators, and worked on LED indicators.
vialqmkandroid
itspngu/vscode-jsonnet-format
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
jsonnet formatter for vscode
Contributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
vscodevscode-extensionvscode-pluginjsonnetformatter
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