Tradebot
Jeffrey Watts is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience in systems administration, particularly in Linux environments. Currently serving as a Senior Systems Administrator at Tradebot Systems since November 2012, Jeffrey manages over 800 CentOS servers, utilizing Puppet for configuration management. Previous roles include Sr. Linux Administrator at Adknowledge, where a major project involved enhancing a Nagios monitoring solution, and a contractor at H&R Block, focusing on Red Hat Network Satellite deployment. Earlier experience includes managing SGI IRIX and Sun Solaris systems at Sprint Nextel and Linux/BSD servers at Internet Direct. Jeffrey began a career in IT as a Macintosh Lab Administrator at the University of Kansas, where also earned a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Tradebot
Tradebot does high-frequency stock trading. Dave Cummings owns Tradebot. He started the company out of a spare bedroom with a $10,000 investment in 1999. Over the years, the company has made well over $1 billion in trading profits. Small in headcount and large in impact, we make millions of trades per year. Our edge comes from our technology. We have one of the fastest systems in the industry. Big data makes us smarter. Markets keep changing. We keep improving our system.