Ho Lai
CTO at Fero
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHo Lai is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building risk and analytics platforms for trading and commodities, currently leading product and engineering at Fero from London. He spent over a decade at Macquarie Group advancing cross-asset, intraday execution and front-office analytics—progressing from graduate developer to SVP-level quant strategist and platform lead. Ho combines deep hands-on engineering (C++, Python, real-time systems) with domain expertise in commodities, derivatives and index product lifecycle, enabling traders and structurers with production-grade tooling. He has a dual academic background in software engineering and finance from UNSW, which underpins his ability to translate complex quantitative requirements into pragmatic, scalable systems. Notably, his career blends front-office responsiveness with strategic platform evolution, a mix that repeatedly delivered low-latency reporting and risk functionality for global trading teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
vuex2
android-application1
mta1
vue1
android1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ferovinum/adl
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
ADL (Algebraic Data Language)
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
hoyinlai/rules_python
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Experimental Bazel Python Rules
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythonbazelstarlarkrulespython2
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