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  • T. Rowe Price
  • United Kingdom
  • 02:55 (UTC +01:00)
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Achievement: Pull Sharkx3Achievement: YOLOAchievement: StarstruckAchievement: Pair ExtraordinaireAchievement: QuickdrawAchievement: Arctic Code Vault Contributor

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IsaacCheng9/README.md

Hi there, I'm Isaac! 👋

Working as a quant developer at T. Rowe Price after graduating at the top of my cohort at the University of Exeter with a first-class honours degree (81%) in BSc Computer Science, ranking 1st for both overall grade and final year project. Proficient in Python, with experience in financial markets and big tech. Passionate about developing large-scale distributed systems and algorithmic optimisation.

Experience

Company Role Tenure
T. Rowe Price Quant Developer – Fixed Income September 2023 – Present
T. Rowe Price Quant Developer Intern – Fixed Income June 2022 – August 2022
IBM Software Engineer Placement – Watson IoT Platform June 2021 – June 2022

Feel free to message me on LinkedIn!

Awards and Skills

Awards Keyloop Dealer Tech Hackathon 2022 – University Round Winner (£1,000 Prize) and International Finalist
Languages Python, SQL, C++, C, R
Technologies pandas, Polars, DuckDB, NumPy, Airflow, FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit, pytest, PostgreSQL, Kafka, PyQt, scikit-learn, Dask
Tools Git, Linux, AWS (S3, MWAA, ECS, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, Qt, Splunk, Grafana

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