Summary
Chris Uzdavinis is a seasoned software developer with eight years of experience focused on low-latency, high-performance C++ and Java within financial markets. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he currently contributes at IMC Financial Markets, where he works on end-to-end platform design, market data processing, and performance tuning. Previously, he helped build Teza Technologies' platform from the ground up, delivering full-stack improvements, custom profilers, dynamic code generation, and optimized calculation engines for trading strategies. His career also includes long-tenured roles at ATD and Automated Trading Desk, where he developed core trading infrastructure and tooling. He is passionate about language semantics, clean code, and efficient architectures, with interests spanning optimizations, compilation, algorithms, and AI. Chris combines hands-on engineering with a track record of delivering robust, scalable trading platforms in high-stakes environments.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer