Summary
Nicola Manzini is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building trading systems at a quantitative hedge fund after a multi-year stint developing high-frequency trading algorithms and low-latency infrastructure at IMC Trading. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and blends rigorous distributed-systems knowledge with production C++ and Java expertise, having also shipped microservices in Clojure on AWS. Nicola’s background in architecture and 3D web visualization informs a pragmatic emphasis on performance and cross-platform optimization, from browser graphics to millisecond-scale trading stacks. Based in the New York City metro area, he pairs academic teaching experience in distributed systems with hands-on trading-floor collaboration, making him comfortable translating quantitative research into reliable, high-throughput software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS and MS Building Engineering and Architecture, BS and MS Building Engineering and Architecture at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Computer Science, Computer Science at 42 Paris
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Chicago
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Italian