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The challenges of doing Infra-As-Code without "the cloud"

Duration:
30 minutes

Abstract

Enabling cloud like compute abstraction on large scale Trading Systems

Talk

Description

Optiver trades in several Exchanges around the world. Exchanges converted from busy trading floors to huge Datacenter with low latency networking a tons of compute. Building and maintaining infrastructure in this environment has lot of challenges which are not solved by off the shelf tools. This talk showcases how we are tackling this exciting problem at Optiver

The speaker

Nicolas Demarchi

Nicolas Demarchi

Nicolás is a seasoned self-taught software engineer with over 15 years of experience, and a passionate advocate for Python. Beginning his journey in the Python community in 2012, he co-founded the Python Argentina NGO and has actively contributed to several Python conferences, both as an organizer and a speaker. He has been maintaining the Python Argentina infrastructure since 2014, while also hosting and contributing to various Python meetups in Buenos Aires and Amsterdam, his current city of residence. Nicolás has participated in the organization of the Python Amsterdam meetup, the pycamp.es team in Europe, and has been an integral part of the Media Workgroup of Europython 2020 online. His work extends to the EPS board where he assisted in organizing Europython2021-online, Europython-2022 in Dublin and 2023 in Prague, with a specific focus on operations and the hybrid format. In recognition of his significant contributions, Nicolás was named a PSF Fellow in 2021.

Nicolás joined Optiver in 2019 as with the goal of developing a platform to manage infrastructure. He is currently managing the Linux, Networks and Platform infrastructure teams.