Bronson Plocus
Prime Brokerage And Enterprise Risk at Marex
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBronson Plocus is a seasoned derivatives and volatility specialist with nine years of formal experience and a two-decade career footprint across trading, market-making, and risk leadership. He has run discretionary and systematic volatility arbitrage strategies, managed prime brokerage and enterprise risk at Marex, and led market risk teams at the OCC overseeing US-listed options and futures clearing. Known for bridging quantitative research with practical execution, he has built proprietary pricing models, portfolio risk metrics, and broker algo workflows that improved execution reliability and diversified risk concentrations. His background spans equities, indexes, ETFs, commodities, and Treasuries, with hands-on experience negotiating trading costs and scaling institutional client businesses. Unusually for a trader, he pairs engineering-minded training (BS in Civil Engineering and BS in Finance from Lehigh) with masters-level financial mathematics studies, enabling rigorous modeling and business-focused implementation. Based in Bethlehem, PA, he approaches problems with a pragmatic "let's find a solution" mindset that shows up in both trading innovation and client-facing strategy.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters-Level Coursework Financial Mathematics, Masters-Level Coursework Financial Mathematics at New York UniversityBS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at Lehigh UniversityBS Finance, BS Finance at Lehigh University College of Business
English
Github Skills (9)
management10
xml-node10
python10
javascript9
erp9
open-source9
odoo8
nextcloud3
rocketchat3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pierrelocus/odoo-attrs-replace
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Odoo Attrs Replace: Helper to change Odoo's "attrs" to attributes on nodes directly. Odoo from version 17 doesn't accept "attrs" attribute on xml Nodes.
Contributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
odooxml-node
pierrelocus/pierrelocus
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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