Ghais Issa
Senior Director, Global Quantitative Research
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolGhais Issa is a Senior Director of Global Quantitative Research based in Atlanta with 15 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and quantitative libraries for trading and risk. He combines deep expertise in software architecture, language and DSL design, distributed databases, and stream/batch processing with hands-on leadership of large-scale R&D frameworks that handle terabytes of data and 1,000+ concurrent threads. At ICE he has driven IRM 2.0, exotic derivative revaluations, and advanced volatility-surface and pricing-model research while also designing the organization’s core quantitative library. Prior roles span VP Engineering work on real-time personalization engines serving 15k requests per minute to systems-level engineering at VMware, reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems know-how and quantitative finance rigor. He is comfortable moving between research and production, turning sophisticated models into scalable, auditable infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at American University of BeirutComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (87)
macros10
nim-lang10
dataframes9
procedural9
python9
metaprogramming9
ada9
c999
polars9
threaded9
dataframe9
driver9
rust8
compiler8
lru8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ghais/HQu
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:43 commits, 39 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
convert/magento
Aug 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
magento2magento-pluginmagento
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