Whit Armstrong
Fund Flow Researcher at Point72
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWhit Armstrong is a fund flow researcher and quantitative developer with 18 years of experience building trading systems, fixed income models, and data-driven portfolio construction. He has moved between top-tier institutional environments—from Tudor and Highbridge to Morgan Stanley and Point72—bringing a pragmatic blend of quantitative finance and production systems expertise. Whit’s background spans hands-on model development, systematic macro strategies, and running portfolios, giving him a rare end-to-end view of research, implementation, and risk management. Based in Greenwich, CT, he pairs a multidisciplinary Vanderbilt education in economics, anthropology, math and CS with a track record of translating complex market signals into robust, deployable trading infrastructure. Notably, his career shows a pattern of bridging research and ops—turning quantitative insight into scalable trading workflows used in live environments.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Economics Anthropology Math CS, BS Economics Anthropology Math CS at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (47)
bloomberg10
r-package10
r10
hiredis10
api10
rcpp10
cran10
soap9
rdata9
jupyter-kernels9
soap-client9
cpp8
zeromq8
tslib8
redis-client8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
armstrtw/CppBugs
Sep 2010 - Oct 2019
c++ version of BUGS
Contributions:218 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 years 2 months
cppc-plus-plus
armstrtw/rcppbugs
Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:97 commits, 5 comments in 5 months
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