Welcome to the Finance Series
Finance and technology have been intertwined throughout my career. Working on a financial market terminal at Standard Chartered Bank — computing PnL, Greeks, and real-time risk for trading desks — gave me a front-row seat to how technology powers modern financial markets.
What This Series Is About
This series sits at the intersection of finance and engineering:
- Financial Market Concepts — how markets work, what traders actually look at, and the mechanics behind instruments like options and futures
- Quantitative Finance — pricing models, risk metrics (PnL, Greeks, VaR), and the mathematics underneath
- FinTech Engineering — building low-latency, high-reliability systems for financial applications
- Personal Finance — investing principles, mental models for thinking about money, and lessons learned
Why Finance
Most software engineers don’t need to understand finance deeply. But if you’re building systems where money moves — whether that’s a trading platform, a payments app, or a DeFi protocol — understanding the financial context makes you a dramatically better engineer.
That’s the angle I’ll be writing from: a software engineer who had to learn finance on the job, and found it far more interesting than expected.
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