Sebastien Donadio is a Managing Director at Barclays, serving as Head of Cross Markets Core Engineering and Data, where he oversees the analytics platform, front office platform, and data teams. Previously, he built and managed the quantitative business for Bloomberg’s Quant platform within the Bloomberg CTO office. His career spans key leadership roles in financial technology, including Chief Technology Officer for an FX/Crypto trading operation, leading software engineering at HC Technologies, and developing algorithmic trading strategies at Sun Trading. As a partner at AienTech, a high-frequency trading hedge fund, he implemented cutting-edge technological solutions to enhance trading operations. His technical background also includes developing operating systems for the US Department of Defense, conducting research with Bull, and leading financial risk technology initiatives at Société Générale.
Sebastien has taught various computer science and financial engineering courses for the past fifteen years. This time was spent between the University of Versailles, Columbia University, University of Chicago, NYU. Courses included: Computer Architecture, Parallel Architecture, Operating System, Machine Learning, Advanced Programming, Real-time Smart Systems, Advanced Financial Computing.
Sebastien authored books on High-Frequency Trading, Algorithmic Trading, Machine Learning and MLOPs.