Pedro Estrela
Network Quant Engineer at Jump Trading LLC
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Estrela is a Network Quant Engineer with eight years of focused industry experience and a deep research background in low-latency, high-frequency trading, and wireless systems. He combines PhD-level research skills with hands-on trading desk and IT work to optimize the entire trading loop—from exchange reverse engineering and wireless distribution to LAN and in-house systems—delivering rapid prototypes and practical performance gains. A world expert in PTP clock synchronization, timekeeping, queueing and bottleneck measurement, he has driven structural innovations across multiple trading firms and published PTP research. His rare T-shaped profile spans trading, development, business development and academic research, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions that uncover non-obvious latency sources. Based in Amsterdam, he balances high-performance engineering with creative pursuits (listed on GitHub simply as "Performance Engineer and DJ"), signaling a pragmatic yet curious approach to complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Computer Science, Licenciatura, Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (62)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pestrela/ddj
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pestrela/dj_maps
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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