# Jasha Sommer-Simpson

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Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jasha

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer, PB Core @ Hidden Road
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, NY
- Owner of billing engine, responsible for calculation of fees charged to HRP customers.

### Co-founder and Lead Software Engineer @ Finance Startup
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
-	Lead software engineer at small startup focused on trading financial derivatives.
-	Developed machine-learning pipelines to process high-frequency financial data in real time.
-	Trained and deployed neural networks to make short-term forecasts of market conditions.
-	Applied simulation and reinforcement learning techniques to extract alpha from financial data.
-	Developed system for automated placement of trades based on our pipeline’s forecasts.
-	Created tools and visualizations to assist traders in decision-making regarding live market conditions.

### Contract Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
-	Recruited based on contributions to Meta-sponsored open source Python libraries Hydra and OmegaConf.
-	Core developer and maintainer of Hydra and OmegaConf; implemented new features and deployed bugfixes per team priorities and requests from internal users at Meta.
-	Collaborated with small team of software engineers to ensure quality and direction of the project.
-	Provided technical support to internal users at Meta and external users in the open-source community.
-	Helped to double the size of the Hydra and OmegaConf open source userbase. 

https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra
https://github.com/omry/omegaconf

### Researcher @ University of Chicago
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Chicago Area
-	Developed a novel algorithm for efficient, coarse-grained simulation of complex biological ODE systems using C++ and MATLAB.
-	Applied the algorithm to model chemical concentrations in human pancreatic islets (see
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45177-0_17 )


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Statistics
University of Chicago
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics
University of Chicago
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jasha10

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Last updated: 2026-04-01