About
Hello, I am Renaud Palvadeau, senior developer focused on the finance industry.
Currently in position, I intend this resume to present myself and my career achievements.
Basic Information
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Location:
London, UK
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Date of Birth:
5 March, 1984
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Place of Birth:
Paris, France
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Languages:
English, French, German
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Gender:
Male
Work Experience
September 2021 -
Present
September 2015 -
August 2021
IT Strategist / bnpparibas.com.hk
I was in charge of developing C++ or Python automatons trading equities, derivatives or currencies in Asian markets. As part of the Strategist team I also supported the trading environment by handling incidents and constantly improving the platform.
My focus was predominately on currency trading with my largest projects being:- Developing a strategy operating in a foreign and emerging market, while navigating latency challenges,
- Developing a multi-currency strategy realized 100% in Python,
- Developing a monitor to handle PnL movements in realtime and by instrument,
- Building a tool to optimize the CPU cache allocation.
September 2011 -
August 2015
Head of North America HPC & Low Latency Architecture / usa.bnpparibas.com
My role was to manage the school of servers used for market making and research. I was responsible for:- Keeping up-to-date with the latest technologies and establishing contact with vendors to find alternative hardware and/or operating systems,
- Testing new products in lab to benchmark stability and performance,
- Once validated, delivering new servers / softwares in production in an automated way.
My major achievements included the synchronization of all Linux servers to GPS using PTP, the creation of a Web platform to manage network appliances, and the installation of a modern research cluster with shared storage.
September 2008 -
August 2011
Linux Engineer / bnpparibas.fr
I was part of a team managing 1500 servers of various usages, where I was in charge of building and maintaining them. The role also included R&D to improve low-latency trading servers performance. Therefore I deployed and tuned the first Linux realtime kernel in the company and bench-marked a number of high-speed network cards (kernel by-pass).
Education
EPITA - Master's Degree System, Network, Security (France) / www.epita.fr/en
2002 - 2008School of Engineering & Computer Science
Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Germany) / www.th-koeln.de/en
2005 - 2006Skills
SQL/Oracle
C/C++
Quantitative analyse
Network
Linux
Python
HPC technologies
Contact Information
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Address
London, UK