Manuel Saraiva
Principal Software Engineer - Executive Director at Aquis Exchange
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolManuel Saraiva is a Principal Software Engineer and Executive Director based in London with over 20 years of C++ expertise and more than 16 years focused on financial markets, exchange connectivity, and low-latency trading systems. He has designed STP data feeds and real-time trading platforms for major institutions and now leads engineering at Aquis Exchange. Manuel also brings a niche five-year background in confidential computing and Intel SGX applied to FinTech, crypto, and cybersecurity, having worked with early Bitcoin and blockchain pioneers. His career blends deep systems and protocol engineering with hands-on production delivery across banks, exchanges, and startups, and he often connects legacy trading infrastructure with cutting-edge privacy technologies. An engineer by training in computer hardware and software, he’s as comfortable optimizing network protocols as he is porting core services to Linux, a skill set shaped by long-term, cross-domain systems work.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Game Development DirectX OpenGL C++, Game Development DirectX OpenGL C++ at UNICENPPontifical Catholic University of Paraná
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
benchmark9
nanomsg9
asio9
boost9
benchmarking8
server7
beast7
visual-studio-code-extension7
networking7
websocket7
http-server7
catch27
bazel-rules7
websocket-client7
boost-asio7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manuelgustavo/ubuntu-setup
Apr 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
manuelgustavo/boost_build
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Scripts to build easily build the boost library
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
asioboost-libraryboost
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