Jean Safar - CTO / Chief Architect, Hyper trading labs

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Work Background

NowCMGroup CTO

Feb. 2024Portugal · HybridManaging NowCM's R&D, development groups, security and IT and introducing innovative technologies such as AI and DLT to take NowCM to the next level.

Hyper Trading LabsGDEX DLT Advisory Board

Nov. 2023https://gdexindia.com/Helping #GDEX create a digital asset exchange in india (https://www.linkedin.com/company/gdexindi)

Hyper Trading LabsNowCM Senior Technology Advisor

Nov. 2023 - Jan. 2024http://nowcm.euAdvising on all technology matters. http://nowcm.eu

Digital AssetGlobal Head of Solution Architecture

Jan. 2023 - Aug. 2023France · RemoteResponsible for all architecture concerns during the construction of enterprise blockchain solutions using Digital Asset products (Daml, Canton, Daml Finance, etc..). Building the team, frameworks and architectural best practices to engage the biggest and most demanding production based projects using DA's permissioned DLT stack.

Hyper Trading LabsMember of Endava's Technology Advisory Community

Nov. 2021http://www.endava.comWe provide industry and technology consulting services to Private Equity and businesses with a particular focus on digital evolution and agile transformation

Digital AssetDirector of Client Experience Engineering

Nov. 2021 - Feb. 2023France · RemoteIn charge of all engineering and architecture teams in Asia, Europe and the US to build production smart contract based solutions using Daml, Canton and Daml Hub and integrating within clients' complex eco systems.

Hyper Trading LabsDigital Asset Holdings Client Advisory Board Member

Jan. 2021 - Oct. 2021https://www.digitalasset.com/Joined through Colibrate the Digital Asset Holding Customer Advisory Board-

Hyper Trading LabsColibrate co-founder, CTO On Demand

Oct. 2020 - Oct. 2021http://colibrate.com1. Created and Implemented SmartFlows a Smart Contract Based framework that simplifies the development of decentralised data centric applications with strong confidentiality, security, and traceability requirements. SmartFlows is based on 3 concepts: Life Cycle based Workflows, Data Distribution and Data Transformation, all orchestrated by Smart Contracts in order to keep a unfalsifiable single source of truth and proof of process. It integrates, for the transformations, with secure enclaves technologies such as CCF and Conclave or with full homomorphic encryption libraries, to provide end-to-end secure & confidential computations. SmartFlows is blockchain agnostic and can run on private or public blockchains, DLT or even Database thus allowing a progressive integration in the enterprise's system. 2. Created & Designed Odon, a VueJS Micro Front End framework that generates UIs on the fly based on users' roles, devices and usage patterns. It uses the most modern widgets (Vega, G6...) and can easily integrate custom built widgets with the same paradigm for fast time to market! It is based on 3 main components a) a dynamic rendering real time client, with complex dashboarding capabilities and agnostic device rendering (web, OpenFin, tablet etc...) b) a Domain Specific Language to generate JSON specifications based on the context and users feedback c) a NLP translation engine from any language and lexicon to that DSL thus allowing written and vocalised creation of views.

Hyper Trading LabsOne Creation CTO On Demand

Jan. 2020 - Sep. 2020https://www.one-creation.comOne Creation aims at building a next generation Data Digital Right Management platform based on DAML and Secure Computing Techniques that captures all contributions, subscriptions, filtering and billing at a very fine grained level while guaranteeing that data publishers never loose control of the data!

Hyper Trading LabsManaos Chief Technology Officer

Oct. 2019 - Dec. 2019https://www.manaos.com/As a "CTO-on-demand", I helped Manaos build their technology team, and their cloud target architecture and processes using the latest AWS patterns and techniques as well as a Quarkus based Java stack

Hyper Trading Labs91.life Technical Advisory Board

Jul. 2019http://91.life

Hyper Trading LabsLiquidShare CTO On Demand

May. 2018 - Jul. 2020https://www.liquidshare.io/As a technical advisor and part time CTO to LiquidShare, I architected the SaaS and Blockchain backend to incorporate the latest techniques and tools in terms of Infrastructure, Event Driven Micro Services and Private & Permissionned Blockchain Development Patterns for LiquidShare's Post Trade Services. I also hired the first half of the engineering team. I built and presented the technical architecture for LiquidShare's successful selection by Bank de France for its CBDC experimentation with a new set of technologies (such as DAML), patterns and vendors to address those new challenges.

Hyper Trading LabsFounder

Apr. 2017http://hypertradinglabs.ioDeveloping research, tools, solutions and engaging in advisory consulting for the use of advanced technologies such as Blockchain, HPC & AI & AR to redesign the next generation of trading systems using the latest tools and languages.

Hyper Trading LabsMatrics co-founder, CTO On Demand

Apr. 2017 - Jun. 2019http:/matrics.ioBuilding the next generation of risk & portfolio management platforms natively running on cloud, using big & Fast data and utilizing blockchain and AI technologies.

Hyper Trading Labs91.life CTO On Demand

Apr. 2017 - Jun. 2019http://91.lifeNinety One aspires to advance precision medicine by combining state-of-the-art software technology with modern mathematical methods of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Calypso TechnologyChief Architect

Mar. 2016 - Apr. 2017Greater New York City Area* In charge of the Calypso platform development, architecture and innovation teams. Put in place the Strategy for transforming Calypso's Architecture, reduce its technical debt and move from an on-premise architecture to a cloud native architecture with scalability, elasticity, high availability and continuous deployment . -- Put in place the new reference architecture using the latest stacks for Micro Services, Web Front end and In-Memory Distributed Computing technologies. -- Setup and Built Calypso's Blockchain Strategy, Developments and Partnerships in particular the ones with R3 and CLS where I initiated and architected the development of a Trade Matching PoC with R3 Corda and 6 financial institutions in Europe, Australia, South and North America to use Blockchain as a primary middleware to perform matching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4bmAWFKyM . -- Built Calypso's Capabilities in HPC, Big Data and AI. -- Introduced Advanced java in memory techniques to handles large and fast data

ActiveViamCTO Storm Network

Jul. 2007 - Jul. 2012New York · On-siteArchitected and built a full distributed automated syndicated loan closing and settlement platform that used FpML and a staged event driven CQRS architecture to link 3 main tier 1 investment banks in a full real time system, which was purchased by markit!

ActiveViamCo-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Board Member

Apr. 2005 - Feb. 2016Greater New York City AreaFrom my work on Grid Computing I created a technology vision to build in-memory and grid aware component based systems for Capital Markets. I met 4 business partners to create Quartet and I implemented that vision. The first components that I created and built are: 1) ActivePivot: an in-memory distributed computing technology derived from my work in Japan, that provides real time and high throughput OLAP functionality for complex financial calculations (VaR, CVA etc...) using Objects as first class entities. 2) ActiveStream: a Deal Structuring and Life Cycle Management framework. Managed and Architected ActiveLedgers, an Enterprise Technical ledger Application as a pure in-memory solution built on ActivePivot. Speaker on public panels on real time trading architecture. Active Pivot Evangelist and Architect on all Engagements - VaR, CVA, TCA , Real Time Risk, Collateral Optimization and Management use case. Setup an Innovation Lab for big data eco systems and algorithm investigations to extend our new in-memory products and that built a spark integration and an efficient Collateral Optimization Algorithm class

TIBCODirector Professional Services (DataSynapse)

Sep. 2003 - Mar. 2005Paris Area, France · HybridResponsible for all aspects of clients' technical engagement, Implementations as well as high level Architectural missions on Grid Computing subjects in France and Italy.

Societe GeneraleConsultant, Senior Architect

Jan. 2003 - Sep. 2003ParisDesigned & Built - an EJB Pre-deal CounterParty risk module integrated in Algorithmics using WebLogic - au automated performance test bench for Calypso to assess the better deployment topology of engines/data and event servers for a high volume business line

Florencesabbatical

Dec. 2001 - Dec. 2002Florence Area, ItalyEnjoyed a year in Florence by (amongst other things) learning Italian near Piazza Santa Croce, doing some Cooking and Wine Tasting, playing guitar and singing in a blues band!

Dresdner Kleinwort WassersteinVP, Head of Architecture

Mar. 2000 - Nov. 2001Tokyo, JapanTechnology evangelist, responsible for bringing new technologies in practice (J2EE, Aspect, Component Development etc...) and to build a reusable set of components to all business aligned development teams. Full time member of the Venture Capital Arm investing in High Tech Asian Startups performing technical due diligence on investment prospects

OnSite K.K.Founder

Nov. 1999 - Mar. 2000Tokyo, JapanStartup to provide Google-Maps like Satellite/Aerial/Street Level Views for the Tourism Industry

Lehman BrothersVP, Equities IT Head of Architecture

Jun. 1999 - Mar. 2000Tokyo, JapanArchitect for the Equity Derivative group. I developed a Real Time In-Memory Java OLAP Cube based on Reflection for Order Management Reporting delivered to external clients over the secured RV link. I streamlined the use of Java, C++, Tibco RV, J2EE & CORBA. I Built a Secure Tibco Link for remote deployment on client’s side.

UBS WarburgAD, Project Manager

Jun. 1996 - May. 1999London, United KingdomManaged a group of 8 working on NT and NeXTStep using JAVA, Objective C, C++ and TCL as a RAD team on the trading floor to develop a applications for the Credit Desk (CDS / TRS). Implemented the integration of an Objective-C pricing system using Java, CORBA and JNI and re-engineered all Fixed Income Bond analytics using Marvin Software's Adfin++ libraries for the global Bond trading system.

Bank of AmericaSenior Software Engineer (NationsBanc-CRT)

Jun. 1995 - Jun. 1996Greater Chicago Area · On-siteRewrote CRT's C++ Bond analytics libraries.

Lehman BrothersAVP, Architect

Sep. 1993 - Jun. 1995Greater New York City AreaArchitect for the design of the new interest rates front office derivatives trading system. In charge of the NextStep evaluation.

SunGard - now part of FISSenior Software Engineer (Renaissance Software)

Mar. 1989 - Sep. 1993Palo Alto, California · On-siteFirst Non Founder Employee. Main Developer and Manager of the successful C++ Opus Line of Trading Systems. Invented and Built a Table driven language that became a successful interpreter for Opus's reporting.

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