Jerome Provensal
Retired Software Engineer at Virtu Financial
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJerome Provensal is a seasoned software development leader with over three decades of experience designing and managing mission-critical systems for financial services. He has led engineering teams at ITG and Virtu Financial, blending hands-on development in Perl, JavaScript, Python, Java and C++ with agile delivery practices to drive low-latency trading and liquidity solutions. As co-inventor of POSIT Alert, he helped create a widely used global block indications network, demonstrating a knack for practical innovation in market infrastructure. Trained in advanced computer systems at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, he combines rigorous academic grounding with a pragmatic focus on reliable, auditable software. Now retired and based in Los Angeles, he remains connected to the industry through advisory and managerial roles, bringing institutional knowledge of trading systems, rapid application development, and operational resilience. Notably, his career reflects a rare continuity of leadership from hands-on engineering to strategic product impact in electronic trading.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
DEA (Master Of Advanced Studies), Systemes Informatiques, DEA (Master Of Advanced Studies), Systemes Informatiques at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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11answers
26questions
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Github Skills (97)
dashboard10
postgresql10
python10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
python-tabulate10
influxdb10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
pretty-print10
mysql10
analytics10
prometheus10
go10
command-line-utility10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jeromegit/fixations
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Set of tools to handle FIX protocol data
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 104 pushes in 2 years 11 months
fixprotocolfinancefinancialfinancial-datafix
jeromegit/audible2sheet
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Script to export the list of books in one's Audible library into a Google Sheet document
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 43 pushes in 7 months
google-sheet
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