Lucas Abbade is an Equity Strats Vice President at Morgan Stanley with eight years of hands-on experience building data-driven trading infrastructure and analytics. He combines a strong software engineering background across Python, Scala, Java/C++, and R with practical expertise in data pipelines, ETL, Spark, Airflow, and cloud deployments on AWS/GCP to deliver production-grade quant systems. Comfortable across backend APIs, containerized microservices, databases (Postgres/MySQL, MongoDB) and visualization stacks, he bridges quant research and engineering to turn models into reliable, auditable workflows. His trajectory from data engineering roles to senior strat positions reflects both deep technical breadth and a focus on operationalizing ML and pricing models in low-latency environments. Lucas’s academic foundation with an MS in Computer Engineering from USP complements unusual early experience in multimedia, image processing and even blockchain, giving him a curious, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Based in New York, he is known for shipping pragmatic solutions that balance algorithmic complexity with production robustness.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology at Jade Hochschule
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Técnico Eletrônica, Técnico Eletrônica at ETE FMC - Escola Técnica de Eletrônica Francisco Moreira da Costa
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel
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