Thomas Barles is a Head of Fixed Income IT Development with 11 years of experience building low-latency, front-office systems for top-tier banks and hedge funds. He has repeatedly improved performance and reliability—delivering a 20x speedup on a critical app, scaling FIX engines, and hardening trading infrastructure used by hundreds of users worldwide. Equally comfortable leading teams and mentoring junior engineers, he combines hands-on C# and systems expertise with successful REST and web UI modernizations. His background spans risk, automatic market-making, order management and pricing tools, and he excels at translating trader needs into production-grade, highly available software. Based in London, he thrives on high-stakes challenges where robustness and responsiveness directly impact trading outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering and Statistics Computer Science, Software Engineering and Statistics Computer Science at Polytech Lille
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Thomas Barles - Head Of Fixed Income IT Development at SMBC Group