Brian Day
Senior Developer at BlackEdge Capital
Elmhurst, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Day is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over two decades of experience delivering high-performance, low-latency systems in the financial industry. Based in Elmhurst, Illinois, he is a Senior Developer at BlackEdge Capital, focusing on scalable trading and risk infrastructure. Earlier at Optiver, he led a small team and then a major cross-team project to build instrument verification, storage, and distribution for risk management, applying C/C++, Linux, and market protocols like FIX. He has a proven track record as an engineering manager (Americas) and team lead, known for aligning architecture with business risk, mentoring engineers, and driving agile processes and testing initiatives. His career spans Symantec, Orc Group, Panasnic (contract), Caterpillar, and other industry players, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on development and strategic leadership. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Bradley University.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BrainbenchBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Bradley University
Github Skills (2)
game-development2
game-engine2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Bday7593/BDay_Comp490_GithubJobsProject
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Bday7593/Create-Operating-System
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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