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Nicholas Limarsha

Nicholas Limarsha

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Software engineer building investor-facing reporting portals and data platforms for a long-short equity hedge fund. I work across buy-side trading and data systems, from OMS/EMS integrations and trade reconciliation to market-data pipelines, and previously delivered enterprise platforms in regulated financial services.

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Projects

Quantitative finance and systems work, plus selected web and ML builds.

Quant Lab

Quant Lab

A monorepo of five quantitative-finance tools, each built to do one job well with tests, benchmarks, and a runnable demo: an event-driven backtester, a real-time market-data pipeline, an options pricer (Black-Scholes, binomial trees, Greeks, implied vol), a C++ limit-order-book matching engine, and an MPT portfolio optimizer (efficient frontier, VaR/CVaR). Shared CI, Docker, and a dev container.

PythonC++FastAPIDuckDBRedisDocker
Search Engine using Wikipedia API

Search Engine using Wikipedia API

A user interface for a search engine that incorporates Wikipedia searching. Built with React and utilizing Wikipedia's API through Axios for seamless data fetching.

ReactWikipedia APIAxiosMaterial-UI
Spring Boot Application for User Authentication

Spring Boot Application for User Authentication

A Spring Boot application that includes user authentication with JWT-based security for user sign up and login with email verification. Features email verification, JWT token authentication, and comprehensive error handling.

Spring BootJWTPostgreSQLJava
Youtube Personal Trainer

Youtube Personal Trainer

Recommends workout videos by matching a user's uploaded exercise clips against a database — comparing movement sequences and similarities from body-keypoint extraction, then surfacing relevant recommendations.

FlaskOpenCVNumPyPandas
Face Mask Detection

Face Mask Detection

An image-based ML process to identify & annotate whether people are wearing masks. Using a dataset from Kaggle with images of people wearing masks, not wearing masks, or wearing masks incorrectly, along with PASCAL VOC format annotations.

PythonPyTorchOpenCVFaster R-CNN
Domain

Trading Systems & Infrastructure

Building and maintaining critical systems for buy-side firms, focused on reliability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.

Domain Experience

  • OMS/EMS integrations, trade reconciliation, market-data normalization, and position keeping
  • Reconciliation automation that cut manual processing time by ~70% in production
  • IT risk assessments and system audits for commercial banking clients (HKMA-aligned)
  • Secure engineering: data masking, encryption, RBAC, and audit logging for regulated environments

Tech Stack

Core
Java · Python · Spring Boot · SQL · REST APIs · Multithreading
Enterprise & Data
Oracle DB · MS SQL Server · Redis · ETL Pipelines · WebLogic · JBoss
Security & Compliance
JWT · SSL/TLS · Data Encryption · PII Masking · RBAC
Engineering

Engineering & Cloud

Designing scalable, well-tested systems with modern cloud infrastructure. Pragmatic solutions that balance developer velocity with maintainability and operational resilience.

What I Build

  • Scalable microservices and REST APIs on AWS with Spring Boot and modern frontend frameworks
  • CI/CD pipelines and workflow automation reducing manual processes by 60%
  • Containerized deployments on OpenShift and Kubernetes with infrastructure as code
  • Security remediation and system integration testing reducing production defects by 30%

Stack

Languages
Java · Python · TypeScript · C++
Frameworks
Spring Boot · React · Next.js · Node.js
Cloud & Platforms
AWS · Microsoft Azure · OpenShift · Linux (RHEL)
Tooling
Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Control-M

Technical Skills

Full-stack and frontend development with a strong quantitative background.

Frontend: production React/Next apps · Backend: APIs & services · Finance: modeling & analytics · Tools: CI/CD & infra

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FrontendBackendFinance/QuantTools
Key areas:React/Next.jsTypeScriptPythonFinancial ModelingDerivatives Pricing

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Professional Experience & Achievements

Showcasing key accomplishments, professional experience, and certifications that demonstrate expertise in software development and technical leadership.

Hedge Fund Data Platform & Investor Reporting

development

Built investor-facing reporting portals and Python data pipelines (Azure Container Apps) for a long-short equity hedge fund — from market/position data ingestion through validated, published reports.

TypeScriptReactPython+3 more

Manual reconciliation time

-70%

Reporting page-load speed

+30%

Financial Risk Assessment & Regulatory Compliance Platform

development

Led comprehensive IT risk assessments and system audits for commercial banking clients, implementing automated compliance monitoring and reporting systems.

Risk AssessmentRegulatory ComplianceSystem Audit+2 more

Risk issues identified

15+

Audit efficiency improvement

+20%

Enterprise Data Migration & Deduplication

development

Designed and integrated a comprehensive migration and deduplication process for an electronic pension platform, coordinating stakeholders end-to-end.

JavaSQLETL+2 more

Data accuracy uplift

+30%

Workflow Automation Frameworks

performance

Automated cross-team workflows using Control-M and HashiCorp tooling to reduce operational toil and improve collaboration.

Control-MHashiCorpAutomation+2 more

Manual workflow reduction

-60%

Cloud Microservices Platform Improvements

development

Architected scalable microservices and REST APIs on AWS with Spring Boot and modern frontend stacks.

AWSSpring BootREST APIs+2 more

Platform performance improvement

+25%

Security Remediation & System Integration Testing

performance

Enhanced core applications by remediating vulnerabilities in Java/React services and executing integration testing on Linux and OpenShift.

JavaReactLinux+2 more

Production defect reduction

-30%

Smart Lock System (Facial Recognition + NFC)

innovation

Built a smart lock system using facial recognition and NFC authentication on embedded hardware for a campus environment.

Raspberry PiNVIDIA Jetson Xavier NXOpenCV+2 more

Cost reduction

-70%