Daniel Lee

Daniel Lee

Daniel Lee

eTrading Software Engineer @ Jefferies

I am a Software Engineer with a degree in Electronic Engineering working in the financial sector. My main interests are learning about low-level programming concepts (e.g. compilers, profilers, GCs, memory layout) and low-latency development techniques. Languages: English, Spanish, Korean

Experience

JefferiesSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

2025 — Now

Team: Core eTrading technology

Real-time JVM based micro-services for trading system

Performance benchmarking for latency and throughput sensitive systems

T. Rowe PriceSoftware Engineer

2024 — 2025

2024 — 2025

London Area, United Kingdom

Team: Front Office Investments technology

Fixed income attribution system for portfolio managers and analysts

Data pipelines with Airflow in AWS with Python to get data from external vendors (e.g. Bloomberg)

Large scale event-driven data quality checks with AWS EC2, SQS, S3 and Lambda functions

Morgan StanleySoftware Engineer

2018 — 2024

2018 — 2024

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Team: Investment Management technology

Distributed, scalable and high-performance backend services for investment teams

Data pipelines for internal and external facing systems

Tax optimised portfolio building system

Morgan StanleyGraduate Software Engineer

2018 — 2018

2018 — 2018

London, United Kingdom

Technology Analyst Programme (Graduate Scheme for Software Development)

Assessed training on computer science fundamentals, including common programming languages

Automated trading agents competition

Final project: benchmarking performance of serialisation libraries (e.g. Protobuf, FlatBuffers)

Education

University of Southampton

Master of Engineering - MEng

Wellspring School

Bachillerato Bilingue