Jason Strimpel

Jason began his career trading derivatives for a Chicago-based hedge fund. After its implosion in 2006, he joined JPMorgan Chase where he held multiple positions in trading and risk management. After JPMorgan Chase, he joined BP’s derivatives trading business as a credit risk specialist managing $20B in credit risk exposure. He moved to London in 2014 where he focused on deploying market risk technology for the oil and gas trading businesses. In 2015 he moved to Singapore as Chief Information Officer for agricultural trader COFCO. While in Singapore he joined a fintech venture capital firm, launched several startups, and ended up back in corporate at the global metals trader Rio Tinto. At Rio Tinto he built and led the engineering, data science, and analytics organization where he developed the trading systems for Rio Tinto’s $40B metals trading business. He made his way back to the United States with Amazon Web Services where he works today. Jason holds a Master of Science degree in Quantitative Finance from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

In 2022, Jason founded PyQuant News where he has taught over 1,000 people how to use Python for quant finance, algorithmic trading, and market data analysis through a cohort-based course and millions of others through his daily content and twice-weekly newsletter.