Summary
Louis Botterill is a senior technology leader with 14+ years' experience designing and delivering high‑performance, highly reliable risk and trading systems across banks and commodity firms. As SVP and Hypercube/big-data lead at Barclays he combines hands‑on Scala, Spark and distributed systems engineering with product and team leadership to run globally critical market‑risk production systems. His background spans cryptographic high‑security systems, real‑time embedded software and large Scala codebases for pricing, valuation and P&L attribution, giving him a rare blend of low‑level performance expertise and quant finance domain knowledge. Comfortable across functional and OO paradigms, he architects end‑to‑end platforms from greenfield to regulated reporting in PRA/Fed environments. He is passionate about mathematical foundations, functional programming and correctness, which drives his emphasis on dependable, low‑defect systems at scale. Based in New York, he pairs deep technical authority with pragmatic delivery of mission‑critical financial infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at The Open University
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Sussex
English