Software Development – Finance / Banking / Insurance
John M. Jones
Let me help you with your next software development project
I am a software developer with too many years of experience to count. I spent the majority of my career writing software for the finance/banking/insurance industries. Now I’ve gone independent and enjoy taking on projects where I can add value. They still seem to be around finance. Stick with what you know! Click the “About Me” menu above to find more details of my experience.
Trading
Writing automated and semi-automated trading strategies, mainly for retail traders. Most have been based on technical analysis.
- Stocks
- Options
- Futures
- Forex
- Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain
I have worked on system internals for a number of blockchains and the applications that use them. I have been part of the core teams of Bitshares and Komodo blockchains.
- Networking / Consensus layer
- UTXO and smart contracts
- Ethereum, EOS, Bitshares, Komodo, DefiChain
- Cross-chain communication
Banking
Software for enterprise use in the areas of mortgage and investing.
- Mortgage servicing software
- Middleware and mobile components for connecting to investment products
Insurance
Enterprise software for
- Generating quotes
- Generating binders
- Process automation
I received my first computer somewhere around 1982. It was a Timex-Sinclair 1500. I borrowed the game “Frogger” from a friend, but that was the only game I ever played on it. Someone else gave me the source code to a word processor, printed on thermal receipt paper. Yep, you guessed it. I typed it all in. And yep, you guessed it, it never worked. I spent a large amount of time debugging it, and learned a lot about BASIC programming.
After mowing a lot of lawns, I bought a Commodore 64 with a disk drive. It came with a bunch of games, which I lent to a friend, who had a dual-drive Commodore 128. In an attempt to copy my games, he copied his blank diskette over my games. Grrrr. Oh well.
Copying the assembly and checksum program from Byte magazine, I copied every interesting program into my C64. It was a great way to continue playing with Basic.
My first jobs were with the Commodore 64/128. Inventory at a family-owned store, keeping track of customers and printing reports using Filebase. Fun times.
Then, I picked up dBase. And in particular, Clipper. That was when I moved into the “big leagues” and wrote more serious business applications. As Clipper faded, I switched into my dream language… ‘C’. Now I was closer to the metal. I could crash the computer whenever I wanted. From ‘C’ I moved to Java and C#, working in and out of C/C++ along the way. C++ is my favorite, and has been for a long time.
I am currently available for projects. Feel free to contact me for more information.
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