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Andreas Abros

Senior Rust Engineer | HPC | Equity Derivatives at HSBC

Location:London, United Kingdom (London, United Kingdom · Hybrid)
Timezone:Europe/London
Experience:18 Years
Direct Rate
$65–$130/ hour (USD)
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About & Engineering Approach

Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience designing innovative distributed data- and event-streaming systems in FinTech, security, and analytics. Specializes in Rust for high-performance computing (HPC) and equity derivatives at HSBC. Previously at Nillion Labs built network stacks and decentralized confidential data computation on Rust.

Core Technologies & Competencies

Primary Specializations

Rust

All Technologies & Tools

Rust
Hpc
Low Latency
Multithreading
And Real Time Systems
Distributed Computing Systems And Cryptographic Networks
Java
Python
C
AWS
Kinesis
Lambda
Ecs
Sqs
Sns
Terraform
Ansible
Docker
Cicd

Commercial Experience

Senior Rust Engineer (HPC / Equity Derivatives) @ HSBC (Contract)

2026-07-01 — Present

Developed high-performance Rust compute modules for derivatives pricing.

Senior Rust Engineer @ Ducat Protocol (Contract)

2025-07-01 — 2026-07-01

Built a decentralized finance protocol on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Senior Rust Engineer @ Nillion Labs (Full-time)

2022-06-01 — 2025-07-01

Built the network stack for decentralized computation on private data, distributed storage, and processing.

Lead Software Engineer @ Fidelity International

2017-08-01 — 2022-06-01

Designed scalable data processing and analytics platforms.

Selected Portfolio & Deliverables

BackendFintech

Equity Derivatives Pricing Engine

Rust-based HPC derivatives pricing module that sped up valuation of a 40K-position portfolio 6x to 900 ms per batch.

rust
c
python
aws
InfrastructureCryptography

Confidential Data Network

Decentralized private-data compute network stack with 1.2 GB/s throughput and 320 nodes on the test network.

rust
tokio
aws
terraform
Data PlatformAnalytics

Streaming Risk Pipeline

Distributed event-streaming pipeline handling 45M events per day with 230 ms latency and 28% lower AWS costs.

rust
aws-kinesis
docker
ansible

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