# Jordan Barkin

> Software @ Jump Trading

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jordanbarkin

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Jump Trading
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Head Teaching Fellow - CS51, Abstraction and Design in Computation @ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA
As one of three head TFs, working with Prof. Stuart Shieber to improve course infrastructure and hire and manage a team of around 16 TFs who instruct more than 200 students.

Recipient of the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Education for the Spring 2021 and 2022 semesters.

### Quantitative Strategies Intern (Macro) @ The D. E. Shaw Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Quantitative Developer Intern @ Ellington Management Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Worked with a small team of senior quantitative developers on improving software infrastructure: 

• Designed and built production asynchronous API for requesting locates for baskets of equities from multiple brokers during live trading.
• Developed custom monitoring application, which detected multiple production issues during its first month of deployment and is being deployed firm-wide. 
• Wrote and improved cross-platform Level 1 market data streaming services and APIs written in C#, Python, and C++.

### Software Development Intern @ Mastercard Data & Services
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Arlington, Virginia, United States
• Worked with the Data Tools team to develop and implement the algorithms that underpin their product’s data ingestion and processing application.
• Implemented an extensible compiler for in-house query language using F#, Lex, and Yacc.

### Teaching Fellow - CS51, Abstraction and Design in Computation @ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Lead office hours, instruct semi-weekly labs, and grade assignments for Harvard CS 51, a rigorous introduction to functional programming, abstraction, and design taught in OCaml. 
• Plan and lead weekly section of 15 students.

### UI/UX Prototype Engineer @ Ring
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Build prototypes (interactive mockups) of new app features. These prototypes were used to get approval for new features from the CEO and to provide an interactive example of new features to the developers, helping them to accurately meet the designers’ criteria.
• Write programs to analyze customer support data.
• Compose and develop interactive customer support and marketing websites.


## Education
### Master of Science - S.M. in Computer Science
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics; Secondary Field in Language and Linguistic Theory
Harvard University

### Harvard-Westlake School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31