Charles Figueiredo
Head Of Platform Infrastructure Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCharles Figueiredo is a seasoned technology leader specializing in cloud-native platform engineering and scalable infrastructure for financial services. As Head of Platform & Cloud Engineering at Citadel, he drives cloud strategy, security-focused architectures, and the adoption of cloud-native patterns across private and public clouds, while building lean, high-performance engineering teams. He has a proven track record building and operating SRE functions, establishing error budgets, and implementing automated monitoring to maximize performance and availability. Charles has led international infrastructure initiatives, including co-locating trading infrastructure across Asian and European exchanges and expanding foreign office capabilities. His career spans leadership roles at Citadel, Bridgewater, Highbridge, and BNY Mellon, and he holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Based in New York, he combines hands-on engineering depth with strategic oversight to deliver reliable, secure platforms at scale.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois
Github Skills (26)
rdkafka10
client-library8
apache-kafka8
ansible-role8
librdkafka8
kafka7
producer7
robot7
high-performance7
c-library6
cpp6
ansible6
kafka-consumer6
scheduler6
kafka-producer6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ccf/ccf.github.io
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
ccf/pytrader
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
cryptocurrency trading robot
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
pythontrading-botrobottradingrobot-trading
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.