# Sean Knight

> SWE @ Jump Trading

Location: London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/seanknight

Recent graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computation and Cognition (Course 6-9)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Trading @ Jump Trading Group
Jan 2023 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom

### Biology Teacher @ MIT Global Teaching Labs (GTL) x Liceo Scientifico Belfiore
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
Collaborated with MIT GTL and teachers at Liceo Scientifoc Belfiore to teach and plan a month’s worth of biology lessons for high school students of all years.

Created unique lessons on stem cells; restriction enzymes; Cre-Lox and CRISPR Cas-9; epigenetics and iPSCs; unique cells and their use in discoveries; neuroscience techniques; and modern drug discovery methods.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Jump Trading LLC
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Added numerous features to a production trading platform that allowed the platform to more easily handle trades at scale.

Built a full-stack (FastAPI, MongoDB, React) automated configuration management system to increase development and deployment speed of multiple trading applications.

Designed and created data pipelines to process and upload vast quantities of data at high speeds for quantitative analysis.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Migrate and develop a Python codebase that helps fit Hidden Markov Models to EEG and LPF data.

Utilize computational tools to understand how ketamine can affect neural circuits and rhythms in the brain when used at anesthetic-strength.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Red Hat
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Developed backend Rest API endpoints (Django,  FastAPI) and improved a statistics processing pipeline (from pseudopolynomial to polynomial).

Developed the savings planner and reports page on Ansible Automation Analytics which helped individual customers save thousands of dollars on automated computing costs.

Worked on unit test migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library.

### Software Engineer Intern @ BusySquirrels
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Developed the BusySquirrels browser extension that allowed for seamless visitation cashback and transaction recording. (ReactJS, Amplify, AWS, Webpack)

Responsible for improving client website experience by developing essential features such as authentication flows.

### Machine Learning Research Intern @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge
Implemented AutoKNN regression algorithm which helped to improve sub-seasonal weather forecasting. The AutoKNN implementation was included in an ensemble that set a benchmark for the US Bureau of Reclamation and NOAA sponsored Forecast Rodeo II competition.

Expanded existing sub-seasonal weather forecasting models to predict on the contiguous US region by updating model report tools, data pipelines, and the models themselves.

Improved existing model performance by utilizing conditioning variables such as Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI.v2).

### Desk Worker @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### IT and Web Developer @ iFillSystems™
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washougal, Washington, United States
Developed and redesigned numerous websites as part of company image revitalization and subsidiary launch.

Managed servers and domains to keep website, email, cloud storage, and other IoT assets running properly.

### Student @ AI4ALL
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computation and Cognition (6-9), Double Minor in Business Management and Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### High School Diploma
Mountain View High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/knightsean00
- Website: https://knightsean00.github.io/

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Source: https://flows.cv/seanknight
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/seanknight/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05