A highly motivated, self-starter and enthusiastic software engineer with 13 years of experience in quantitative and trading application development for the financial industry.
I bring a passion for innovation and a track record of delivering high-performance solutions to complex financial challenges
I bring a passion for innovation and a track record of delivering high-performance solutions to complex financial challenges
Quant Engineering
Bullish
Since January 2023
- Bullish is a regulated digital asset exchange that delivers reliable, low-cost liquidity and enables customers to earn income from automated market making.
- Design and development of core features of Bullish exchange such as automated market making, margin trading and portfolio margining, perpetual futures and options.
- Special focus on writing very high quality, low latency code that doesn't break.
- Leveraging AI driven tools such as GitHub Copilot and GPT 4 to boost productivity and enhance code quality while managing risks.
- Mentoring of junior members of the team.
- Main technologies: Java, Python, SQL.
VP - Global Markets - FX eTrading Strats
Nomura
September 2020
to January 2023
- E-Trading Strategy sits within Nomura’s Global Markets division as part of the Digital Office, following a “strats” model rather than being a more traditional IT function.
We are a user oriented team operating globally in Tokyo, Singapore, London and New York.
We are responsible for all E-Trading platforms in the dealer-to-client and dealer-to-dealer spaces, including pricing, execution and price distribution, across cash and derivatives. - Tech lead for UIs within the FX strats group where I built a small team of developers while staying very hands-on.
- Worked with a large team of consultants to deliver a successful rebuild of Nomura Live, Nomura's FX Single Dealer Platform.
(Technologies: React, Openfin, Java, Caplin FX, LMAX disruptor, KDB, SQL). - Designed, developed and successfully released a new desktop UI for traders to configure and stream FX curves.
This greatly improved both traders control over the curves and streaming latency.
(Technologies: C# WPF, Tibco). - Developed a fast historical blotter that can search, sort and filter millions of trades. (Technologies: Java, LMAX disruptor, Caplin).
AVP - Equity eTrading Technology
Credit Suisse
January 2019
to September 2020
Singapore
- Design and development of components for the cash equity trading system following micro-services architecture principles, including:
- A trading mandate system from scratch including the front-end in React, back-end in C#, Redis, SQL and a full coverage of unit and end-to-end tests.
- A client portfolio pricer for the equity financing desk using F# and React.
- Promotion and implementation of agile methodologies (TDD/BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, containerization, …) in the team.
Senior Quantitative Developer
Capitalab (BGC Partners)
December 2017
to December 2018
Singapore
- CapitaLab is a quantitative financial technology
group within BGC Partners, responsible for optimising portfolios of financial derivatives for large investment banks and buy-side clients. - Tech lead embedded in the quant team I was responsible for the architecture, performance and scalability of the portfolio optimisation engine.
- Delivered exponential performance gains in the portfolio compression engine: from 2h30 to 3 mins through algorithmic complexity reduction and better use of data structures.
- Halved the memory used by the risk calculation engine by fixing memory leaks and improving the multi-processing implementation.
- Improved the test framework: 3x test cases for 25% of run time through better parallelisation.
- Optimisation of SQL queries joining tables with billions of lines through indexing.
- Coached the quants on clean code, system design and test automation principles.
- Main technologies: Python, SQL Server, F#, multi-processing.
Senior Software Engineer
eFront
October 2016
to November 2017
Singapore
- eFront is the leading software provider for the alternative investments and risk management areas of the financial services industry.
- Design and development of enhancements and new functionalities for APAC FrontInvest clients (C#, Javascript, SQL) both in office and at clients premises.
- Key clients include GIC, Temasek, Mac Quarie, Khazanah, ADIA, ...
Quantitative Developer - Fixed Income
BNP Paribas CIB
November 2014
to September 2016
Singapore
- Design & development of in-house tools for APAC FIT desks including:
- • An intraday PnL Forecast tool for Treasury APAC desks (Python).
- • A service providing real-time transfer rates for internal clients + corresponding contribution tools for treasury desks - 800+ users across APAC region (AngularJS, C#, SQL Server, Windows service).
- Improved team development practices by promoting SOLID and agile principles, TDD and streamlining the development pipeline through better use of source control and CI/CD.
Assistant Manager - FI / ALMT Valuation & risk control
BNP Paribas CIB
November 2012
to November 2014
Hong Kong
- As part of the global fixed income risk and valuation control group:
- Lead the implementation of risk control procedures for ALM-Treasury for APAC scope
- Design and development of various IT tools (Python, Excel/VBA, C#/WPF) to automate team tasks
- Exposure to regulatory (Volcker rule, ) and operational risk (rogue trading or "fat finger" prevention) problematics
Software Engineer
BNP Paribas CIB
October 2011
to November 2012
London
- As part of the global fixed income risk and valuation control group:
- Business process analysis, requirement gathering and training of the end users.
- Design and development of an application to automatize the yield curve IPV process across the different participant teams (Europe, Americas, Asia).
- Exposure to yield curve construction and IR products valuation methodologies (FRA, bonds, swaps, IR options, swaptions, ...)
- Technologies: Excel/VBA, SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET MVC.
Software Engineer
Société Générale CIB
February 2011
to August 2011
Paris
- Recast a tool aiming to predict end of day volumes across different parts of the company’s SI.
- • Re-engineered and improved the proof of concept (VBA).
- • Designed and developed a new production version as a web application (PHP, Oracle).
Software Engineer
42 Capital
May 2010
to September 2010
Paris
- Development of a position monitoring and risk management application for the company's trader (C# WPF, WCF, SQL Server).
- Backtesting of proprietary quantitative trading strategys with R.
Undergraduate studies in mathematics, physics and chemistry (MPSI & MP) in preparation for competitive entrance exams to the top French engineering schools.
Engineering degree - Master's degree in computer science
EFREI - Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'Informatique
September 2008
to August 2011
Major in computer science with minor in financial maths.
- French (native langage)
- English (fluent)
- Mandarin (basic)
- General programming (Python, C#, Java)
- Functional Programming (F#)
- AI driven development (GitHub Copilot, GPT 4)
- SQL Databases
- NoSQL (KDB, Elastic search, Redis, Firebase)
- Web Applications (ASP.NET Core, React)
- Algorithms and data structures
- OOP Design Patterns
- Domain Driven Design
- Microservices Architecture
- DevOps (TDD, BDD, Docker, CI/CD pipelines)
- Agile Project Management (Scrum)
- Structure, pricing and risk of standard derivatives
- Interest rate term structure modelling
- Linear optimisation in high dimensions