Lukas Zhao is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on the FX Pricing Engineering team. In his eight years with the company, he contributed to the building of a distributed electronic trading platform microservice system, which won several ETFExpress awards, and some of his independent infrastructure work has turned into larger community-wide projects that are now in production across multiple departments at the firm. He also started a department-wide testing workgroup that is focused on educating and bringing modern design principles and test-driven development practices to multiple teams across Electronic Trading Engineering.
Lukas’ background is as a condensed-matter physicist. His research in topological quantum materials was published in a number of high impact journals and was presented at international conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from City College of New York and earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.