João Catarino — Quantitative Developer
// Quant Developer

João Catarino

[joe-WOW kuh-tuh-REE-noo]

Quantitative developer at Squarepoint Capital. Before that, five years at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a Software Engineer in Front Office Buy-Side Equities, building the data platform behind the Asset Management business. Based in London.

Available for new problems
// experience
Squarepoint Capital
Nov 2025 — Present
Quantitative Developer · London
Working alongside Quantitative Researchers to deploy deep-learning-based alpha-generating strategies.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2020 — 2025
Progression
2021 – 2022Graduate 2023Associate 2024 – 2025Senior Associate
Software Engineer, Front Office Buy-Side Equities · London
Part of the team behind the Asset Management Investment Platform — microservices handling 1M+ requests a day across 30TB of data. Authored a low/no-code ETL framework powering 800+ tasks, and owned the data-pipeline orchestration end to end.
Python · Java · Airflow · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Summer 2019
Software Engineering Intern, Portfolio Implementation · London
Built a service for app-to-app authentication and a proof of concept for moving the team's infrastructure to the cloud.
Python · Java · Docker · AWS
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Summer 2018
Software Engineering Intern, Rates · Glasgow
Worked on the firm-wide trading, risk-management and analytics platform with the Rates team.
Python
Seedrs
Summer 2017
Data Science Intern · Lisbon
Built a recommendation system for the marketplace.
Pandas · NumPy · scikit-learn
// projects
Rhezus
Web medical-education tool used by 900+ students
Flask · Angular · DynamoDB · AWS
Clave
iOS app for geofenced anonymous discussions
Go · Swift · DynamoDB
// education
The University of Edinburgh
2015 — 2020
Master of Informatics (MInf) · Edinburgh
First-Class Honours. Distributed systems, machine learning, data science, distributed ledgers and IoT.
// certifications
AWS Associate Solutions Architect
2022
CFA Institute Investment Foundations
2021
// leadership
Edinburgh University Trading & Investment Club
2017 — 2020
Director of IT
2018 — 2020
Responsible for EUTIC's entire digital footprint and the Edinburgh Finance Conference.
Head of TMT Sector
2017
Tripled member attendance and investment pitches; won Best Performing Sector, and members took the Best Pitch prize.
$ email / linkedin / github
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