Ben Gimpert

Bio

Ben has been a professional software developer for ten years, and has been hacking code for much longer. His past and current clients include "bulge bracket" investment banks, hedge funds and energy trading houses. He built a taxonomy browser for Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2004, and worked for ThoughtWorks in 2000. Ben teaches and advises on software engineering, machine learning, personal finance, financial analysis, and the culture of quants. He has an MSc in Finance from London Business School and a BEng in Computer Science from Northwestern University.