Tom Kwong, CFA, is an experienced software engineer with over 25 years of industry programming experience. He has spent the majority of his career in the financial services industry. His expertise includes software architecture, design, and the development of trading/risk systems. Since 2017, he has uncovered the Julia language and has worked on several open source packages, including SASLib.jl. He currently works at Western Asset Management Company, a prestige asset management company that specializes in fixed income investment services. He holds an MS degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (from 1993), and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation since 2009.
I would like to thank my colleagues at Western Asset, especially Team Nebula, the DevOps Team, and some of the risk managers, for their encouragement and support in my enthusiasm for the Julia language. This includes Sal Kadam, Chandra Subramani, Rony Chen, Kevin Yen, Khairil Iqbal, Michael Li, Anila Kothapally, Porntawee Nantamanasikarn, Ramesh Pandey, Louie Liu, Patrick Colony, John Quan, and many others. I also want to thank Jacqueline Farrington for teaching me valuable life lessons, such as having a growth mindset and keeping myself challenged.
I would like to thank the community members from the JuliaLang Slack and Discourse forum for being so kind in teaching me and enlightening me about various programming techniques in Julia. There are too many to mention here, but the first ones who come to mind are Tamas Papp, David Anthoff, Scott P. Jones, David P. Sanders, Mohamed Terek, Chris Elrod, Lyndon White (oxinabox), Cédric St. Jean, Twan Koolen, Milan Bouchet-Valat, Chris Rackauckas, Stefan Karpinski, Kristoffer Carlsson, Fredrik Ekre, and Yichao Yu.
I would like to thank the community members from the JuliaLang Slack and Discourse forum for being so kind in teaching me and enlightening me about various programming techniques in Julia. There are too many to mention here, but the first ones who come to mind are Tamas Papp, David Anthoff, Scott P. Jones, David P. Sanders, Mohamed Terek, Chris Elrod, Lyndon White (oxinabox), Cédric St. Jean, Twan Koolen, Milan Bouchet-Valat, Chris Rackauckas, Stefan Karpinski, Kristoffer Carlsson, Fredrik Ekre, and Yichao Yu.