Dr. James Litsios

Angestellt, Advisor/Leadership in Software/Finance/Technology/Innovation
Zurich, Schweiz

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Agile Software Development
Software Architecture
Technology Innovation
Software development
Product management
Agile management
CTO
Talent Acquisition
Talent Management
Functional programming
Operations Management
Patent writing
Applied mathematics
Haskell
F# (fsharp)
Scala
C++
DSLs
Quant
High-frequency
Real-time

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von James Litsios

  • Bis heute 6 Jahre, seit Aug. 2019

    Advisor/Leadership in Software/Finance/Technology/Innovation

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    James is a thought leader with a proven track-record of developing first of a kind products, building highly driven and skilled teams from scratch, and merging existing teams. He led the development and invention of the digital contract of rights and obligations as Co-Founder, Product Owner and CTO of Elevence Digital Finance (a BearingPoint Ventures seed-funding), and then as Head of Development Switzerland at Digital Asset (see daml.com). James helps organizations be innovative and agile.

  • 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, März 2017 - Aug. 2019

    Head of Research

    Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH

    - IP for language and semantic oriented blockchains and databases (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019082142A1/). - Analysis and strategy.

  • 2 Jahre und 8 Monate, Dez. 2016 - Juli 2019

    Managing Director

    Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH

    Responsible for the Zurich office of Digital Asset

  • 11 Monate, Apr. 2016 - Feb. 2017

    Head of Development, Switzerland

    Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH

    - Led integration of the Elevence team, operations, process, culture, architecture and IP into Digital Asset.

  • 9 Monate, Juli 2015 - März 2016

    Co-Founder, Product Owner, CTO

    Elevence Digital Finance GmbH

    Developed a one of a kind "smart contract" language to digitize multi-party agreements and automate transactions with precision and security. // Hired and led a team of ten (including seven PhD), to demonstrate business processes and financial workflows on multi-party privacy preserving blockchain execution. // Delivered client demos in less than six months. Acquired in less than nine months. (See daml.com for details of the smart contract language, extended and open sourced by DA).

  • 10 Monate, Sep. 2014 - Juni 2015

    Architect

    ti&m AG

    Consultancy in financial services (e.g. at Swisscard)

  • 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Apr. 2011 - Mai 2013

    Tech Lead & Architecture

    SIX Financial through IT Di-Visions

    Led architecture and agile process to deliver a high volume market data processing ticker plant engine and reliable global data distribution.

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Okt. 2009 - Nov. 2010

    Strategic Product Owner

    Actant

    Led the development a “market taking” automated trading system (actant:exstream), complementing the company's market making product.

  • 11 Jahre und 6 Monate, Juni 1999 - Nov. 2010

    CTO

    Actant

    Led quant and architecture development; Tied technology needs with product strategy. Developments: multi-core reactive system, non-blocking queues, automatic differentiation, multi-grid interpolations, auto-fitting SABR volatility, GPU support, reactive algorithmic trading DSL.

  • 5 Jahre, Juli 2004 - Juni 2009

    Head of development

    Actant

    Led software development (~30 developers in CH&UK). Developed and maintained quoting on twelve derivative exchanges. Adopted Scrum.

  • 2 Jahre und 9 Monate, Sep. 1996 - Mai 1999

    Co-Founder

    Actant

    Co-wrote and led the development of the AQTOR derivative market making system. Wrote the underlying C++ framework, threading model, network protocols, pricing and risk models, LIFFE connectivity, and co-wrote the connectivity to EUREX.

  • 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, März 1995 - Aug. 1996

    Director, Device and Circuit Simulation

    ISE - Integrated Systems Engineering (currently Synopsis)

    I joined one of the very first spin-off companies of the ETH to lead development of the device simulation team. The resulting product, Dessis (now Sentaurus Device), was an immediate commercial success and remains a market leader in TCAD device simulation 20 years later.

  • 3 Jahre und 2 Monate, Jan. 1992 - Feb. 1995

    Research Assistant

    Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich

    Co-developed Dessis as part of my thesis, a tool to simulate devices such as transistors, in order to design and test them before actually building them.

  • 3 Jahre, 1989 - Dez. 1991

    Head of Layout and Verification Department

    CSEM SA

    Led development of the first layout tool for analog circuits.

  • 1987 - 1989

    Scientific Staff

    CSEM SA

    See above.

Ausbildung von James Litsios

  • 1991 - 1996

    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

    ETHZ - Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

    Programming, math, simulation, and supercomputers: Everything that I liked!

  • 1982 - 1987

    Computer Science, Math

    EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 1977 - 1982

    Electrical Engineering

    EIG - Ecole d'Ingénieurs, Geneva, Switzerland

Sprachen

  • Englisch

    Muttersprache

  • Französisch

    Muttersprache

  • Deutsch

    Gut

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