Jon Ball

Jon Ball has a diverse work experience spanning several companies and roles. Jon is currently employed as a Senior Software Engineer (Lead) at BitGo, where they work on Prime Network using technologies such as Typescript Node, Postgresql, Golang, and Kafka, with a focus on pure functional programming.

Before joining BitGo, Jon worked at AQR Capital Management as a Vice President in Portfolio Implementation Engineering from January 2022 to April 2022. Prior to that, they were an Associate in the same department from June 2019 to January 2022.

Jon also gained experience as a Quantitative Developer at White Marigold Capital from August 2017 to June 2019. Jon co-founded and served as the CTO of Outt, a company they started in January 2016 and left in February 2018.

Earlier in their career, Jon worked as a Software Engineer at Advanced Acoustic Concepts from June 2016 to August 2017. Jon had also interned at the company as a Software Engineering Intern for two months in July 2015.

Overall, Jon Ball has held roles in software engineering, quantitative development, portfolio implementation engineering, and leadership positions. Through their work experience, they have gained expertise in a variety of technologies and programming languages.

Jon Ball attended Binghamton University from 2012 to 2016, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In terms of additional certifications, Jon obtained a CompTIA Security+ certification from CompTIA in July 2017. Jon also completed various online courses and obtained certifications such as Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP and Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance from Coursera in October 2021, as well as Data Science Foundations: Data Engineering, Data Engineering Foundations, Go Essential Training, Learning Go, Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance, Ethical Hacking: Introduction to Ethical Hacking, Learning Kali Linux, Feature Engineering, Building Your First Machine Learning Solution, How Google does Machine Learning, Concurrent Programming with Go, Creating Custom Data Types with Go, Deep Dive into Go Functions, Go: Getting Started, Introduction to TensorFlow, Launching into Machine Learning, and Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra from various institutions such as LinkedIn and Pluralsight.