Jorge Santos is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance analytics and trading platforms across top-tier financial firms and exchanges. As former Head of Financial Analytics Platform and AI/LLM Services at LSEG and Global Head of Product Management for Refinitiv Workspace, he has steered large multidisciplinary teams to deliver cross-asset quantitative analytics, real-time desktop and web experiences, and organisation-wide AI strategy. Now Chief Product Officer at LightBox, he blends deep domain expertise in multi-asset derivatives, mathematics and finance with hands-on Python and full‑stack contributions (including enhancements to the popular cufflinks Plotly–Pandas charting tools). Known for translating complex quant workflows into productized platforms, he also brings experience aligning analytics infrastructure with cloud partnerships like Azure. His background in engineering and executive product roles gives him a rare mix of quantitative rigor, UX sensibility and scalable platform thinking.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets, Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets at Wharton Executive Education
B.Sc. (Hons) Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Mathematics Physics Networks, B.Sc. (Hons) Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Mathematics Physics Networks at Tecnológico de Monterrey
MIB Masters in International Business International Finance Management Statistics, MIB Masters in International Business International Finance Management Statistics at EGADE
MEB Masters in European Business Finance International Business Strategy Accounting, MEB Masters in European Business Finance International Business Strategy Accounting at ESCP Business School
Contributions:159 commits, 44 PRs, 224 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jorge contributed to the `cufflinks` repository, which provides tools for plotting with Plotly and Pandas. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user interface and extending the functionality of the charting tools, including improvements to annotations and other chart elements. The user also worked on code refactoring and added support for new features within the charting library, such as custom themes. The user is likely a full-stack developer who improved the frontend charting capabilities of the library.
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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