About

Felix Lazbin is a highly experienced Vice President in Global Markets at BMO Capital Markets, with over 14 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is responsible for Electronic Trading and Distribution, Global Markets Engineering, and Software development on the trading floor. Felix's expertise lies in real-time risk monitoring for Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities, working with the quant team to develop solutions using C#, Angular, TypeScript, WebSocket, and MongoDB. He has also developed trading applications for fixed income using C#, WPF, and databases such as Oracle and MSSQL, as well as real-time messaging solutions. Additionally, he has extensive experience in trade floor backend infrastructure, including FIX adapters for trade negotiation, price feeds, and live data processing. Prior to his current role, Felix worked as an Associate in Trading Products at BMO Capital Markets, where he focused on software development on the trading floor. He also worked as an Advanced Software Engineer at Altera, which is now part of Intel Corporation. At Altera, he was responsible for hardware development, modeling, debug, timing closure, and silicon bring-up for external memory interfaces such as DDR, RLDRAM, and QDR. He used Verilog, VCS, and ModelSim for this work, as well as Python and Perl for internal infrastructure development. Felix's tech stack includes infra, TypeScript, MSSQL, MongoDB, Backend, Software Engineer, and AngularJS. He is a highly skilled professional with a strong track record of success in his field.