Hicham Lahlou
Chief Executive Officer at Norma Analytics
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolHicham (Sam) Lahlou is a CEO and founder who has spent over a decade transforming a university research spin-off into Xcelerit, a trusted supplier to Fortune Global 500 firms and the driving force behind Norma, a front-to-back trading and risk management platform for OTC derivatives. He combines deep technical roots in high-performance computing and electrical engineering with practical experience shipping software for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and accelerating compute-intensive applications as a Trinity College Dublin research fellow. Sam is skilled at forging strategic alliances with major technology providers, winning multiple business and technology awards while regularly chairing industry panels. Fluent in English, French, and Arabic, he blends multicultural perspective with technical leadership and a knack for turning complex financial workflows into pragmatic, deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College, DublinMSc, Electrical Engineering, MSc, Electrical Engineering at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
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Github Skills (50)
meteorology10
robotics10
biotechnology10
differentiation10
automatic-differentiation10
computer-graphics10
optimisation10
quantitative-finance10
risk-management10
numerical-analysis10
c-library10
cpp10
quantlib10
risk-analysis9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lotzej/XAD
Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
Fast automatic differentiation in C++
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
differentiationautomatic-differentiation
xcelerit/QuantLib-site
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Sources for the quantlib.org site
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
quantlibsources
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