Summary
Luigi Sgro is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience delivering production-grade software for trading and market-making environments. He has a strong quantitative background (CQF) and a track record of influencing architecture, development methodology and project planning across hedge funds, prop trading and crypto liquidity businesses. Hands-on in Scala and Java, Luigi has built microservice-based risk and pricing platforms, serverless compute pipelines, and custom trading/risk applications that moved from prototype to operational use. He excels at bridging traders and engineers, having worked directly with portfolio managers to deliver transparent, schedule-driven solutions that support live trading. Based in Lugano with international experience including the UAE, he combines deep systems design with operational ownership and a practical bent for automation and data-driven alpha generation.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electronic Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electronic Engineering at Università degli Studi di Genova
CQF Certificate in Quantitative Finance, CQF Certificate in Quantitative Finance at Paul Wilmott - 7 City
Italian, English, German