Georgios Valotasios

Core Competences

Technical & Architecture: Senior Architect and Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience designing, scaling, and delivering tier-1 trading and order-management platforms across major Swiss financial institutions. Deep domain expertise in microservices, micro-frontends, FIX protocol, and Murex integrations
Key Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue, React Native, Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Microservices, FIX protocol, Murex integration, Elasticsearch, Git.
Leadership & Delivery: Led multicultural teams of 5–6. Mentored junior engineers, turned around stalled projects and acted as trusted technical advisor to C-level executives
Stakeholder & Business Alignment: Worked closely with traders and business stakeholders. Drove bank-wide rollouts and provided clear feasibility analysis for strategic projects.

Professional Experience

Consultant

UBP, Zürich

Aug 2023 - Dec 2025

Built and scaled the bank’s new order-management platform team from the ground up. Led a team of 6 and coached the new joiners
Owned the design and delivery of the order-capturing tool across four systems and brought it in ahead of schedule
Owned the Murex interfaces integration to the bank's core platform
Acted as technical advisor to C-level executives on feasibility and technical direction

Tech Lead & Architect

Fintama, Zürich

Jan 2023 - Jul 2023

Became the main technical voice for the C-suite and provided clear feasibility analysis
Recruited, mentored, and led a cross-functional engineering team of 5
Turned around the portfolio analytics tool by introducing a simpler architecture

Founder

Agorium, Zürich

May 2022 - Jan 2023

Designed and built the MVP of a social network that helps scientists get funding. Made the architecture deliberately simple so junior developers could contribute quickly.

Director

Julius Baer, Zürich

Feb 2017 - Apr 2022

Front Applications FX Lead
- Led a multicultural team of 6 owning all business shareholder communication
- Worked directly with traders to design the new Limit Order System and drove the bank-wide rollout
- Owned the bank’s main FX trade-capturing platform (more than 30 microservices)
- Implemented full observability with Elasticsearch and Kibana so the platform stayed highly available
UI/UX Tech Lead
- Built the UI/UX team and turned around a stalled codebase by moving it to a clean modular architecture
- Partnered with the business to design and ship the Structured Products Screener

Senior Consultant

Atos Consulting, Zürich

Mar 2014 - Jan 2017

Full stack developer for Swisscom’s “New Entry Order” and “My Availability and Products”
Tech Lead of the common UI libraries shared among Swisscom departments
Co-Ran the angular workshop at ch/open

Software Engineer

Wuala AG, Zürich

May 2012 - Jan 2014

Introduced recurring payments and owned the account/payments service
Drove the integration with third party services: Paypal, LaCie and Seagate
Modernized the codebase introducing industry de facto standards (Spring framework), integration tests and build pipelines

Software Engineer

netMEDIA AG, Zürich

Aug 2011 - Apr 2012

Refactoring of a modelless J2EE E-Recruitment Application to the latest JEE standards making use of CDI, JPA, JSF, creating tests and writing documentation

Software Engineer

Gloman, Athens

May 2005 - Jul 2011

Development, support and maintenance of live24.gr, sport-fm.gr and the video streaming platform of in.gr
Design of the content distribution and load balancing engine for live24

Mandatory military service

1st Aviation Brigade GR

May 2005 - May 2006

Intern as Software Developer

Gloman S.A., Athens

Aug 2003 - Jan 2004

Education

MEng Equivalent: Diploma of Applied Mathematics and Physics, National Technical University of Athens, GR (1999–2005)

Two majors: Informatics Mathematics & Statistics (Grade: 7.23/10) – The foundation for data processing in machine learning and trading systems

Master thesis: “Dynamic Load Balancing: Finding the Best Server in the Internet” (Grade: 10/10)

Languages

Fluent in English, B2 level in German, Native Greek speaker

Other Info & Interests

Coding open source projects (http://github.com/valotas)
Building automated market data systems, backtesting ML trading strategies and executing algorithmic trades (limit/trailing stops) via IBKR APIs
Skiing, Tennis, Functional Fitness