Chris Uzdavinis
Vice President Of Software Development at WorldQuant
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Uzdavinis is a seasoned software leader with over two decades of low-level systems and trading-platform experience and eight years in senior roles, now serving as Vice President of Software Development at WorldQuant. He specializes in C++ and Java for low-latency, high-performance systems, with deep interests in language semantics, compilation, optimizations, and performance tuning. Chris helped design and implement the core platform at Teza Technologies—building market-data parsers, order-book engines, bespoke profilers, dynamic compilation tooling, and offline optimized code generators that still underpin live trading infrastructure. His career spans high-frequency and quantitative trading firms (Teza, IMC, ATD), combining hands-on kernel-to-application coding with leadership in platform evolution and strategy enablement. Based in the Chicago area, he brings a pragmatic focus on clean, efficient code and a curiosity for algorithms and AI that informs measurable latency and throughput improvements.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Idaho
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Github Skills (36)
reflection10
assembly9
cpp9
swift8
modular7
clang7
python7
haskell7
rust6
pointer6
parse6
toolchain6
memory-management6
browser6
inheritance6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cuzdav/baneful
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:104 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cuzdav/illum
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 pushes in 7 months
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