Summary
Pawel Szopinski is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering complex infrastructure, trading systems, and data centre solutions, now serving as Global Head of eTrading Services Delivery at Barclays in New York. He blends hands-on engineering expertise—from exchange connectivity and market data to specialised server farms and security—with strategic programme leadership in transformation, budgeting and stakeholder management. His career spans senior roles across investment banking, venture firms and consultancy, where he built and scaled in-house and outsourced teams to support mission-critical trading and hosting platforms. An entrepreneur at heart, he has run multiple consulting and diving-focused ventures, applying product development and go-to-market skills beyond traditional IT. Outside finance technology he is a technical diving professional who teaches and organises mixed-gas rebreather expeditions, reflecting a rare combination of high-stakes technical rigor and adventurous operational leadership.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer