Francis Giannaros
Managing Director at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFrancis Giannaros is a technology executive and AI leader with six years of documented experience driving engineering and data initiatives at top-tier financial firms. He currently serves as Managing Director, Head of AI at Citadel after leading Equities Software & Data Engineering there and previously heading Goldman Sachs’ Financial Cloud for Data and Portfolio Analytics. Francis blends deep technical expertise in cloud, data engineering and AI with hands-on leadership of cross-functional teams supporting trading, risk, and research workflows. His academic background — an MSc (Distinction) in Computing Science from Imperial College and a First Class BA in Mathematics & Philosophy from King’s College — underpins a rigorous, analytical approach to building production-grade systems. Notably, he took a year-long global sabbatical to travel through 27 countries, reflecting curiosity and a global perspective that informs how he scales teams and products. Based in New York, he is known for translating complex quantitative requirements into reliable, firmwide engineering platforms.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (Distinction) Computing Science, MSc (Distinction) Computing Science at Imperial College LondonBA (First Class Honours) Mathematics & Philosophy, BA (First Class Honours) Mathematics & Philosophy at King's College London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
finance10
quantitative10
risk-management10
quantitative-finance9
python9
graph6
algorithm6
latex6
math6
miktex6
pdflatex6
optimization6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
goldmansachs/gs-quant
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Python toolkit for quantitative finance
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 7 PRs in 1 day
pythongs-quantgoldman-sachstrading-strategiesrisk-management
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