Summary
Troy Zimmerman is a veteran software engineer and technology leader with over 12 years building low-latency, cross-asset trade management and risk systems in top-tier trading firms. Now CTO at Jump Trading Group, he advanced through roles as a hands-on technical lead and senior engineer, owning architecture, continuous delivery, and real-time pricing and risk frameworks. His background blends deep Python and C++ integration, RESTful service design, and production monitoring with Prometheus, enabling robust intraday pricing and scalable job orchestration across hundreds of machines. Troy has a proven track record of reducing test runtimes from days to hours, exposing C++ libraries to Python to accelerate adoption, and mentoring early-career engineers through structured programs. Comfortable in high-pressure trading environments, he pairs quantitative product sensibility with pragmatic engineering to deliver auditable, research-friendly tooling. Based in Chicago, he brings uncommon fluency bridging front-office needs and firm-wide engineering standards.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Delta College
English