Summary
Valentin Mahrwald is a Senior Technical Specialist based in New York with 15 years of software engineering experience, blending deep Java and Clojure expertise with a strong mathematical background from a starred first MMath. At Citi he has driven front-to-back credit trading systems, risk processing, trade capture and electronic trading, and now architects data and streaming solutions for Global Spread Products with a focus on Flink. He thrives in agile environments and has a history of moving between hands-on development and technical leadership, including building internal reporting platforms with Hadoop/Hive and shaping algorithmic bond trading components. A seasoned contributor to enterprise projects, he previously worked on WebSphere and Apache Aries at IBM and built automation frameworks early in his career. Outside day-to-day work he’s a self-described Clojure aficionado and polyglot hacker (Haskell among others), bringing functional-programming rigor to high-throughput financial systems.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics in Mathematics and Computer Science (equal), first class with distinction, Mathematics, Computer Science, Starred 1st, Master of Mathematics in Mathematics and Computer Science (equal), first class with distinction, Mathematics, Computer Science, Starred 1st at University of York
German