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Francesco Bianchi

About

Passionate software architect with extensive experience in designing and managing large-scale, mission-critical financial systems. Strong ability to bridge the gap between technology and business, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions. Proven leadership in guiding teams through the full software development lifecycle, optimizing architectures, and implementing innovative solutions in the financial sector.

Work Experience

Unicredit S.p.a.
Milan, IT
https://www.unicredit.it
April 2024 – Present
Markets TA & PMT
New position obtained after UniCredit's digital reorganization. This role requires a broader product vision, making business decisions with a strong technical understanding of the product, prioritizing work for my team, and acting as the voice of the customer.
Highlights
  • Ensure project quality and reliability by collaborating with engineers
  • Translate complex requirements into development strategies and plans
Unicredit Services S.C.p.a
Milan, IT
https://www.unicredit.it
April 2019 – April 2024
Senior eFX Software Architect and SW Technical Dev Lead
Led the architecture and development of a global eFX platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. Took over leadership of the frontend development team (previously managed externally), successfully aligning it with backend services. The platform now serves over 10,000 customers worldwide and integrates seamlessly with multiple brokers, improving trade execution efficiency.
Highlights
  • Managed a development team of 15 senior engineers, coordinating efforts across backend and frontend
  • Identify the quickest and safest solutions to achieve goals
  • Identify vulnerabilities and security issues, guiding developers in managing and mitigating them improving the system resilience
  • Handle critical situations by anticipating and fully understanding internal and external risks
  • Optimize code and architecture
List S.p.a. - ION Group
Milan, IT
https://www.list-group.com
December 2014 – April 2019
Senior Analyst Programmer and Software Architect
Design, development, and support of a large and complex custom financial reporting platform for one of the biggest Italian banks.
Highlights
  • Dodd-Frank Regulation Requirements (DFA) submitting reports to DTCC repository
  • Large Trader Reporting for Physical Commodity Swaps (CFTC)
  • REMIT to the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
  • EMIR reporting to REGIS-TR is a European Trade Repository of exchange-traded derivatives transactions (ETD) and OTC
  • Euribor and EONIA contribution to European Money Markets Institute (EMMI)
  • MAD2 (Market Abuse Directive)
  • MiFID2 TradeReconstruction
  • ShortSelling reporting to Italian Consob
  • Money Market Statistical Reporting (MMSR) to Banca d’Italia
GATElab - Euronext Group
Milan, IT
https://www.euronext.com
March 2007 – December 2014
Senior Analyst Programmer and Software Architect
Design, development, and support of custom solutions for various Italian financial institutions.
Highlights
  • Architectural design and development of custom solutions for financial institutions
  • Implementation on a proprietary platform, of automatic trading algorithms
  • Design and development of deal capture, data reconciliation and data migration applications for many financial institutions
  • Interconnection with markets and brokers: Bloomberg(SSOX, SAPI), Reuters(RFIT,RMDS,TWEB), Bondvision, MTA, MOT, TLX with both custom protocols and FIX
CMR - Consorzio Milano Ricerche
Milan, IT
http://www.milanoricerche.it
May 2005 – March 2007
Analyst Programmer
Software development and design for data mining and information extraction applications, as well as the development and integration of grid algorithms for molecular biology at Delos S.r.l.

Projects

  • ExCEED / UCTrader: Led the development of UniCredit's FX trading platform. Integrated low-latency market data handling, reducing execution time by 90%.
  • FCHub: Regulatory compliance application.
  • Credit Value Adjustment (CVA): Application to measure of the market value of counterparty credit risk
  • RetLots Pit: Best Execution solution (Smart Order Routing) on regulated and OTC markets

Contact

Via Mazzini 2
Brenna (CO) 22040 IT
334 6556444
frenz1979@gmail.com
linkedin
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GitHub
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Education

  • 1999 2005

    Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca

    Bachelor of Computer Science

Skills

Programming languages
Java C / C++ C# SQL / PLSQL
Technologies and protocols
Google Protobuf / gRPC WebSockets FIX Kafka / ZeroMQ / Aeron Simple Binary Encoding(SBE)
Frameworks and tools
SpringBoot EHCache Hibernate Micrometer Eclipse VisualMV Grafana Splunk Caplin Kubernetes LMAX Disruptor Chronicle-Queue QuickFixJ
Domain specific
Algo trading Trading Strategies (VWAP, TWAP, POV) Financial products: FX, Bonds, Equities AT (Technical Analysis)

Interests

Programming
Java Game Dev OpenGL Neural Networks
Sports
Trekking Running SkyRunning Soccer
Other
Financial Investment Reading Drawing Travels Red beers Music