Adam Grant
Project Manager at Optimal Market Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Grant is a project manager and seasoned software development leader with 14 years of focused experience in building high-performance, agile teams and delivering trading systems for options market-making, systematic proprietary trading, and volatility management. His background spans hands-on engineering and senior roles across trading firms and financial institutions, including founding partner-level experience at Volant Trading and technical leadership at UBS. He combines practical software craftsmanship—from contributing front-end styling and responsive components to an open-source CSS library—with deep domain expertise in financial engineering and options strategy. Known for designing and delivering technical and financial training, he helps organizations translate complex quantitative ideas into reliable production systems and healthier team cultures. Based in New York, he brings a physicist’s analytical rigor (BSc in Physics) to product-focused project delivery and mentoring.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (4)
html10
css10
sass10
responsive-design9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
adamjgrant/kickstart
Mar 2012 - Feb 2017
Kickstart is a CSS library designed for modularity and fast page performance
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1820 commits, 1 PR in 5 years
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the styling and layout of UI elements within the Kickstart CSS library, focusing on button and form styling. They also focused on the responsive behavior of the components and the positioning of elements within the grid and implemented styles for a new framework for icons. Their work involved modifications across various CSS files related to forms, buttons, and general component styling.
css-librarycssframework
adamjgrant/veganfm
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:257 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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