Cyril Quijoux
Python Lead Developer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Python Lead Developer specializing in financial markets with 7+ years of expertise in front/middle office trading systems. Built SWIFT API solutions, portfolios management tools, and market abuse detection models at top-tier banks (SG, CA-CIB, HSBC). Deliver scalable FastAPI solutions and lead technical teams for fund managers and trading desks.
Work experience
Python Lead Developer
Euro-InformationFreelance
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 10 months
Paris, France
• Building a portfolios and orders management tool for fund managers allowing them to retrieve their positions and send orders to the system • Took decisions for code design and architecture: project layout (src-layout), unit tests, dedicated API clients, data models, interoperability between in-house and vendors systems (Bloomberg), custom errors handling, versioning & packaging • Transformed a tangled monolith structure into a modular backend/frontend architecture with FastAPI and pure JS/HTML/CSS • Implemented interactive and non-interactive authentication with OIDC protocol • Review code from junior developers and train them • Analyze business needs and requirements to write technical specifications
Founding President
Forward
Jan 2021 - Present
5 years 10 months
Paris, France
Help financial institutions in their digital transformation
Python Developer
Crédit Agricole CIB
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
1 year 4 months
92120 Montrouge, France
- Migration of reporting tools based in C# and .NET to Python - Package solutions in wheel binaries - Define Python coding guidelines like the project structure, PEP, or tests - Document the code base - Implement a private packages repository server to ease the distribution and installation of packages - Participate in the implementation of the cloud solution (AWS) with the IT team
Python Developer
HSBCFreelance
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
6 months
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · Hybrid
Skills: Données de marché
Front Office Python Developer
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
May 2022 - Dec 2022
8 months
Paris La Défense
- Building an API from scratch to read and write SWIFT orders - Modernizing the desk tools by building a web application for traders to pass orders and monitor their book - Implementing corporate SSO solution in the application - Business analysis to determine requirements and implement the corresponding technical solution - High degree of autonomy
Python Developer
Crédit Agricole CIB
Jun 2021 - May 2022
1 year
7620 Paris, Denmark
Develop models to spot different market abuse activities on a daily basis Implement ETL pipelines to manage heavy amount of data Work with different asset classes (fixed income, forex, commodities, equities, derivatives) Ensure coding guidelines are well respected (PEP, tests) Ensure object oriented principles and design patterns are well implemented Find new solutions/technologies to enhance the project Coach junior developers
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
May 2017 - May 2020
3 years 1 month
Paris La Défense
Front Office Python Developer
Dec 2018 - May 2020
1 year 6 months
Paris La Défense
- Work with exotic pricing engineers on a multi-products pricing tool developed on python - Develop automation tool to book products in the systems - Build API servers and clients - Edit jupyter notebooks for traders - Provide support on the tools deployed - Work autonomously, with a pragmatic and business-oriented mind in a fast paced environment
Python Developer for Trading Support Units
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 3 months
Paris La Défense
- Development of python tools to automate tasks of control teams - Re-engineering of old VB tools to migrate them toward a Python solution - Test Driven Development - Follow Agile methodology - Maintenance of VBA macros
RPA Developer & Business Analyst
May 2017 - Oct 2017
6 months
Paris, France
- Identify automation opportunities from the business by analysing processes and assessing feasibility - Understanding and documenting the business processes in detail - Designing & developing bots with Automation Anywhere - Creating and maintaining documentation - Project environment (Agile)
Performance Attribution Analyst
HSBC Global Asset Management
Feb 2014 - May 2017
3 years 4 months
La Défense
- Production of performance attribution reports on equity and multi-assets funds for the fund managers, the reporting team and the client services team - Improvement of internal performance attribution tools - Performance attribution research
portfolio manager assistant (equities)
Groupe Amilton
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
4 months
7620 Paris, Denmark
- assistance in the portfolio management - fundamental analysis - technical analysis - participation in companies meeting - verification of the daily NAV - preparation of weekly and monthly reports - IT Tools used : Market Map ; Reuters ; Bloomberg ; Excel
Fund Manager Assistant (Fixed income)
HSBC
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
4 months
La Défense, FRANCE
- Investment propositions on monetary markets in euros and dollar - execution of orders on money markets - preparation of weekly money market points about the Eurozone and the USA - verification of the daily NAV - preparation of reports for the marketing department - IT tools used: Bloomberg, Excel, Apollo
Middle Office intern
Exane Asset Management
Jun 2011 - Oct 2011
5 months
Paris, France
- reconciliation of unmatched trades on CFDs and futures - validation of NAVs, integration of operations in the portfolios (ex-dividend, negotiable debt securities) - validation of trades on CFDs and futures initiated by portfolio managers - IT tools used: Tracker, Excel
Fund accountant
CACEIS
May 2010 - Aug 2010
4 months
Paris, France
- computation of daily NAVs - booked transactions from portfolio managers - elaboration of reportings - IT tools used: Olis FA, GP III, Excel
Education
University of Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE
Master's degree
2011 - 2013
2 years 1 month
ISC Paris
Master's degree
2009 - 2013
4 years 1 month