Wouter Thielen

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About Wouter Thielen

Note: currently *NOT* looking for opportunities, thank you. 25+ years of programming experience, 20+ years of Linux experience, with a great interest in culture and languages, focusing on Japan and Japanese. I am an all-round programmer with exceptional skills in C, C++ and PHP, available for both client/server software and web development, with an interest in mobile application development. I have experience managing small teams of programmers, planning and delegating tasks, communicating with my supervisor(s), and making sure the team is on schedule. I have also graduated from the University of Washington with a master's degree in Computational Finance and Risk Management, while working full-time at JapanTravel and Google. I am also available for statistical analysis and am interested in Big Data technologies. Because of my programming experience, I am your best bet at developing automated analysis platforms. My professional goal is to be a technical leader working on different enterprise projects, gaining new knowledge from customers or colleagues who are knowledgeable in their respective fields, translating this into software development approaches and sharing this with fellow programmers. Specialties: C, C++, PHP, Zend, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Linux, Unix, different services (Apache, MySQL, Postfix, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BIND, LDAP, SNMP), object oriented programming, client/server architecture Related to econometrics: R, statistical analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, CAPM, multivariate statistics, linear regression, PCA, model selection, AR(I)MA fitting, stochastic differential equations, Black-Scholes-Merton, option pricing and binomial lattices, GBM, Wiener and Ito processes and his lemma, numerical solutions and optimizations, trading systems