
Pablo Pfister
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Lausanne, Switzerland
Toptal member since July 20, 2022
Pablo is a computer engineer experienced in building applications from scratch, leading development teams, and acting as chief technology officer. He has deep industry knowledge and practice in fintech and wealth management technology. Pablo is eager to work on MVPs and products, solve concrete business needs, and apply the best software development practices and modern technology.
Portfolio
Experience
- Software Engineering - 8 years
- MySQL - 8 years
- JavaScript - 8 years
- MongoDB - 5 years
- Flask - 5 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- Python - 5 years
- React - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS
The most amazing...
...things I've developed are highly scalable applications to analyze investments from a performance and risk point of view and multiple trading bots.
Work Experience
Tech Advisor
FumeX AG
- Defined the system's software architecture, spanning from the application to the infrastructure level.
- Advised on the technology stack to use for the implementation.
- Recruited and trained the best practices to the 1st software developer of the company.
Chief Information Officer
Cryptoro Calital
- Launched the first Luxembourg-based hedge-fund offering exclusively cryptocurrencies investments.
- Implemented a solution to monitor prices in the market and perform quantitative analysis-related trade recommendations.
- Analyzed tens of white papers on blockchain protocols to advise the investment team.
Chief Technical Officer
Utluna
- Architected the building blocks of the SaaS platform to monitor the performance and risk exposure of professional investors' multi-currency and multi-asset class portfolios.
- Managed a team of three developers in implementing a microservices-based back-end application with React in the front end.
- Implemented industry-specific analytics on non-homogeneous time series, including conditional value-at-risk (CVaR), P&L of options, and marginal contribution to risk.
Founder
5w155
- Created a team of over 25 skilled software developers, designers, and recruiters.
- Directed the implementation and architecture of more than 40 web and mobile projects.
- Advised and coached five junior developers in their evolution into skilled professionals.
Technical Advisor
Ufity
- Managed the technical transition from one team to another.
- Advised the management in technical matters to prioritize features.
- Ensured the scalability of the back end to support 80,000 users.
Software Engineer
Multimedia Signal Processing Group (EPFL)
- Developed and published a social media application with image privacy preserving functionalities from scratch in Swift for iOS.
- Implemented proof-of-concept to port some centralized features of the application to the blockchain, preventing a centralized entity from sharing sensitive images over the internet.
- Presented the results at the 3rd JPEG Workshop on media blockchain announcement at the International Telecommunication Union.
- Published a paper titled Privacy-preserving photo sharing based on blockchain in the SPIE journal.
Freelance Software Developer
Baseline Wealth Management
- Developed a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux to generate performance reports for family office clients.
- Implemented backup functionalities. Currently, five years later, the application is still being used daily.
- Managed hundreds of fields with recurrent validation.
Project Manager and Head of IT Division
Freelance
- Managed the development of 12 IT and engineering projects, handling client interaction, bid and contract drawing-up, negotiation, and student recruitment.
- Consulted the 33 other project managers on software development and IT matters.
- Developed a plugin for the university's mobile application to list jobs available to students.
Software Developer
Freelance
- Developed and maintained multiple websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
- Implemented a custom content management system in PHP and using MySQL.
- Managed the IT infrastructure, including website, servers, and emails, for a nonprofit organization.
Experience
Utluna
https://utluna.comAs the chief technical officer, I built the basic architecture of the SaaS software. I subsequently hired and managed three software developers to expand the functionalities, connectivity, and robustness.
Technical Indicators Composition Execution Engine
The system defines a domain-specific language that defines such compositions and provides an execution engine to compute the resulting time series. I was explicitly hired to implement such web service and managed the architecture and implementation of the entire system.
I subsequently collaborated with the client's team to integrate the service into an infrastructure serving the top private banks in Europe.
Hubteam
https://hubteam.ioI took the system architect role, coordinating a team of three developers and a designer to develop the platform. We defined the system's architecture to make it hyper-scalable, well documented, maintainable, and extensible.
The product is currently being used by tens of companies that base their recruitment process on it.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) - Lausanne, Switzerland
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) - Lausanne, Switzerland
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, SQLAlchemy, NumPy, Pandas, jsPDF, jQuery, OpenAPI, Stripe, D3.js, Stripe API, Chart.js, Highcharts, Vue
Tools
Figma, GitLab CI/CD, Docker Swarm
Languages
Python, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, HTML5, SQL, TypeScript, Java, Swift, Solidity, C
Frameworks
Flask, Express.js, React Native, Laravel, Electron, Next.js
Paradigms
REST, Agile Project Management
Platforms
Docker, Blockchain, Ethereum, Unix, Android, WordPress
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB, JSON, PostgreSQL, Redis
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
Software Engineering, APIs, Architecture, API Design, MERN Stack, Technical Leadership, Airtable, Data Visualization, Front-end, Mobile First, Fintech, CI/CD Pipelines, CTO, FastAPI, Data Analysis, Quantitative Finance, Cryptocurrency
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