Christian Leber

About Christian Leber

Currently I am leading a team of R&D engineers in the pursuit to built custom hardware for trading applications. I am experienced in the design, development and deployment of optimized computer architectures that make efficient use of custom hardware structures and optimized software.Before joining IMC I have worked on components for a HPC network (Extoll) at the computer architecture group of the University of Heidelberg.Specialties: building strong teams, hybrid hardware/software systems, simulation, FPGA, EDA, ASIC design, bring up, testing, modeling, design analysis, computer architecture, distributed algorithms, interconnection networks, HPC, communications, network topologies, verification, optimization, parallel computation, design automation, cryptographic protocols, low latency, HFT, trading execution system

Experience

1. Hardware R & d Lead

   IMC Trading

   Jan 2018 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• University of Mannheim

  Dipl. Inf., Computer Engineering / Technische Informatik

  2000 — 2007

• University of Mannheim

  Ph.D./ Dr. rer.nat, Computer Architecture

  2007 — 2012

• University of Mannheim

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Skills

• Computer Architecture
• High Frequency Trading
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (Fpga)
• C
• Nand Flash
• Interconnection Networks
• High Performance Computing (Hpc)
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• High Performance Computing
• Python
• Parallel Computing
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• Functional Verification
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Simulations
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Low Latency
• Fpga
• Cryptography
• Asic
• Perl
• Eda
• Computer Science
• Algorithms
• C++