Petru Marginean
IT Director, Execution Services at Laurion Capital
Village of Scarsdale, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPetru Marginean is an experienced front-office technology leader with over 20 years building high-performance financial systems and a decade-plus as IT Director for Execution Services at Laurion Capital. He combines deep C++ expertise on Linux and Windows with hands-on work in Python, kdb+, C#, FIX, Qt and enterprise messaging, delivering low-latency market data and execution tools for trading desks. Previously he led server-side C++ efforts at Morgan Stanley and developed risk and grid-compute solutions for equity derivatives at Banc of America Securities, bringing both quantitative compute and production trading experience. Petru is comfortable across the stack—from protocol-level FIX handling to back-end databases and real-time feeds—and has a pragmatic focus on reliability and speed in front-office workflows. Based in Scarsdale, NY, he blends an electrical engineering foundation from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest with a career-long specialty in translating trading business needs into mission-critical software. An understated strength is his sustained cross-platform fluency, enabling rapid delivery in mixed Linux/Windows enterprise environments.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyLiceul de Informatica
Romanian, English
Github Skills (17)
logging7
kotlin7
android6
facade6
java6
logger6
ssh5
slf4j5
scp5
ftps5
multiplatform5
jvm5
sftp4
kdb2
python1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
petrum/baremetal
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:176 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
petrum/pandas-help
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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