Philippe Bolomier

Head of Engineering (Defi)

Keyrock

Apr 2026 - Current (5 months)

Rust, Wasm, CEX-DEX

Head of Engineering (Strategic Market Making BU)

Keyrock

Sep 2025 - Apr 2026 (8 months)

Rust, CLOB DEXes and hybrid CLOB DEXes integrations

Backend engineer

Arrakis

May 2024 - May 2025 (1 year 1 month)

MEV/LVR/IL aware market making on-chain, RFQ, Rust, Intents, solvers, fillers, Cow Swap, Uniswap X, Uni V2/V3/V4 (dynamic fees), Aerodrome on Base, CEX/DEX arbitrage, Avellaneda & Stoikov,... https://www.arrakis.finance https://www.arrakis.finance/pro Arrakis pro for new tokens launch https://dune.com/arrakis_finance/hot-amm (stopped)

Head of Engineering Web3

SmartMedia Technologies

May 2023 - Sep 2023 (5 months)

web2->web3, AWS, API, SOC2, NFTs, AR, VR, Metaverses applied to ad-tech, ads, marketing, loyalty (Visa VOP, VGAR/WCAG), FIFA https://www.smartmediatech.io/

Senior DeFi Engineer

Zilliqa

May 2022 - Mar 2023 (11 months)

Architecture and dev for a high performance / scalable / server-less blockchain indexer (real-time & archive/history) for fungible tokens assets transactions tracing, NFTs (off/on-chain data, batch mint support), on-chain NFTs auction market places, with a GraphQL API (Apollo) that can service wallets like Ledger Cf: https://dev.zilliqa.com/indexer/indexer-introduction/ Tech stack: typescript/Javascript, Node.js, AWS (serverless Lambda, SQS, EKS...), Travis CI/CD, Terragrunt, K6 benchmarking And applying 12 Factor App principles -> https://www.redhat.com/architect/12-factor-app

Senior IT / Development

Portofino Technologies

Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 (10 months)

crypto market-making

Development Team Lead

Profidata

Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 (4 months)

Leading a team of eight software engineers Software architecture, software development, project management (Mainly in C++)

Self Learning : Open-Finance

SelfLearning

Apr 2020 - Dec 2020 (9 months)

Link to the slides of a series of presentations "DEFI Money legoes" I gave in December 2021 - February 2022 -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yge5XPZGtDc1wKRziWxoUTbXsvm5YBJP/view?usp=sharing Deep dive into Open-Finance (also sometimes called DeFi, Decentralized Finance), starting all the way back to Bitcoin/Blockchain -> Ethereum/Smart Contracts/Solidity -> Chainlink/Oracles -> MakerDAO, Synthetix, Compound, Curve, Aave, Decentralized exchanges and protocols: Uniswap (AMM), 0x (ZeroX), Raydium/Serum on Solana. This is a hands-on deep dive that includes deploying nodes (example: Ethereum, Thetha Guardian Nodes), investing, taking an Ethereum Solidity Certification, and following news daily in this space. (I am avoiding using the "DeFi" t

Forex matching, dealing, FXT global central servers level 3 support team lead

Thomson Reuters

Aug 2013 - Apr 2020 (6 years 9 months)

Leading forex trading venues (electronic, OTC, GUI access) with thousands of institutional clients across over 150 countries, 80 currency pairs, and average daily volume of above 200 billions USD, and around 50K transactions daily (thousands per seconds peaks). The division was bought by Blackstone in 2018, and the London Stock Exchange acquired Refinitiv in 2020.

Technology performance engineer

IMC Trading

Dec 2011 - Mar 2013 (1 year 4 months)

Technology performance engineer at IMC Trading (High Frequency trading, ultra low latency), one of the most successful independent electronic market-making firm in the past 20 years. (I left the company as unfortunately my role was being relocated to Amsterdam). The type of role and company where you learn more in a year than in many years at some other ones, and an industry where innovation is absolutely critical

Head of development for Asian Quant prime brokerage services

Nomura Securities

Aug 2009 - Oct 2011 (2 years 3 months)

Servicing high frequency and stat arb clients on Asian markets. The fastest market access, and biggest volume solution for the Tokyo Stock Exchange new Arrowhead infrastructure. This was the key and critical time of TSE major technology overhaul with a hard deadline, and was shortly after the acquisition of Lehman Brothers Asia&EMEA branches (e.g. the subM platform, where the M was still in milliseconds...)

Head of technology for the Japan equities automated execution platform

Deutsche Bank

Oct 2006 - Jul 2009 (2 years 10 months)

IT Manager (VP) for the in-house algorithmic trading system (Japanese equity markets) : project management, application management, clients support (Program trading, Risk, DMA/DSA, Quant prop, Smart Order Routing). An interesting combination of prop/agency synergies. Worked closely with the team of off-shore developers in Russia, and the quant group.

Software engineer - Equity derivatives IT

Societe Generale North Pacific SGCIBSGSNP

Mar 2001 - Sep 2006 (5 years 7 months)

In charge of development and support for electronic financial market access servers (In-house) for Japan and other countries in Asia (orders and market data). Pioneer desk for HFT 2003-2006: - Integration with other systems in the platform (trading tools, post-trade, risk management) - Expertise for Japanese market access and system improvement for insuring the fastest real time access to markets for the proprietary high-frequency statistical arbitrage desk, options market making, and volatility arbitrage desk. Everything was in-house to be most competitive. 2002: - In charge of porting the GL Trade order management system for the TIFFE market, which uses the London's LIFFE connect API. 2001: SGOnline. SocGen's Japan retail on-line tra

Software engineer

Gemalto

Mar 2000 - Mar 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Software integration of a server (in Java) for the management of 3G SIM card into the client systems (J-Phone, now Vodafone) Coordination with France, 3rd party vendors, client interface for technical solution design. Technical lead in a team of 5. Japan was a top leader in mobile telephony at the time, and Gemplus a pioneer and leader for SIM card, cryptography and security, until In-Q-Tel got in.

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Software engineer

Gentech Corp Tokyo Japan

Oct 1997 - Mar 2000 (2 years 6 months)

Software design and development mainly for a computer- vision based software system (Kalman filtering, 3D computer graphics, computer vision, pattern matching, C++) ( https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwbYyBut3XbTR01OSHF1V20wWTQ/edit?usp=sharing ) Lead the development of 1 project through the entire software development cycle (specifications, design, development, tests, client delivery and training). The client was Toyota, and the application was car tracking for commercials film production. Still the biggest and most complex greenfield C++ project I was ever involved in. Gentech had a "sister company" in Isreal called MobileEye with which we were working very closely. In March 2017, Intel bought MobileEye for 15 Billion USD, their biggest ac

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(Civil military service)

French navy SONAR laboratory in Toulon France

Sep 1996 - Sep 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Development in C for tools related to nuclear submarines SONAR signal processing (Fourier FFT implementation, beam forming, automatic detection of faults in SONAR arrays) for both the GUI and server side. The topic of beam forming is fascinating and re-usable in many fields (including Trading)

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