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Technology Platform engineering, end to end: a conversation with Pat Cooney
We sat down with Pat Cooney, Head of Platform Engineering, to talk about what Platform Engineering means here and where agentic AI fits into the picture. Pat has spent over a decade at Optiver across markets, regions, and roles. In one sentence, what is Platform Engineering? It’s the foundation we build the business on, and […]
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Technology Pushing Postgres beyond storage
In most systems, the database acts as a boundary. You write data into it, and other systems read from it. If you need something more dynamic, like reacting to changes as they happen, you usually introduce something alongside it, whether that is a service layer, a queue, or a stream.
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Technology Where AI trading models work (and where they still fall short)
Large language models (LLMs) are getting surprisingly good at learning the basics of trading. Consider that the latest models are able to perform tasks like pricing simple scenarios, reasoning through rules and even outlining basic strategies. That gave trader Quintin Brown an idea. For his first project after moving to Optiver’s Applied AI team, Quintin […]
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Life at Optiver, Meet the team Learning by building: Inside Optiver’s Software Engineering Internship
Many internships promise “real impact.” Few actually deliver it. During their first weeks at Optiver, software engineering interns are introduced to the systems, teams, and problems they’ll be contributing to. They quickly begin building, with some shipping a lightweight release as early as week 2 or 3.
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Technology UI as a Systems Problem
When something feels slow, you’re probably looking in the wrong place. UI issues are rarely local and are often caused by how data is fetched, recomputed, and duplicated across the system, becoming visible only when multiple services, queries, and interactions run at the same time. Read how Optiver approaches building systems where UI and data are tightly coupled.
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Technology Infrastructure-as-Code for Latency-Critical Bare Metal Systems
About the Speaker Leanne Fok is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Amsterdam with 15+ years at Optiver. She previously led the Infrastructure Platform team responsible for our internal Infrastructure-as-Code stack and is now leading the Infrastructure Kubernetes project. Infrastructure-as-Code is straightforward in the cloud. But what about on bare metal? In her PyLadies talk, “Infrastructure-as-Code […]
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Technology Building visibility into a CI platform
This article explores how we operate a CI platform on fixed hardware, where auto-scaling is not always an option. It covers how we built visibility into queue times, utilisation, and system behaviour to manage capacity with confidence.
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Technology When Speed and Scale Collide
Data systems are often described along two axes: speed and scale. In practice, “speed” usually means some combination of latency and throughput, and systems are often optimized for one at the expense of the other, sometimes by trading efficiency for raw capacity. Those distinctions tend to break down quickly once systems move beyond simple use […]
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Technology Real-Time Trading Dashboards with Databricks Apps and Dash
Learn how Optiver built real-time trading dashboards using Databricks Apps and Dash. Discover the architecture behind low-latency, scalable insights for fast decision-making.
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Experienced, Meet the team, Trading Inside Optiver’s Institutional Trading Team
Ask five Institutional Traders how they got here, and you’ll get five different answers. Traders from Optiver’s Institutional team share their diverse paths, how they use their unique backgrounds every day, and practical advice for anyone considering the role.
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