Paul Govereau

Experience

Senior Cryptography Engineer July 2023 - Present

Nexus Laboratories

Palo Alto, CA

CTO / Partner 2020 - 2023

Cooper River Technology

Boston, MA

Advisor to large retail brokerage firms on the deployment of high-frequency equities trading infrastructure, institutional trading algorithms, and retail order internalization.

CTO / Managing Partner 2014 - 2020

Potamus Trading

Boston, MA

Responsible for institutional block trading, and on-exchange market-making algorithms for US Equities.

Responsible for the design and implementation of a low-latency direct-to-exchange trading platform, including: "full depth" market data handlers, order entry across dozens of venues, and risk monitoring.

C, x86_64 Assembly, Verilog, Rust, Lua

Principal Member of Technical Staff 2013 - 2014

Oracle Corp.

Burlington, MA

Participated in the design of Java version 9; specifically, the design of value-types and related issues (see patent filings).

Java, C++

Engineer / Trader 2012 - 2013

Potamus Trading

Boston, MA

Responsible for the design of the firm's proprietary trading system, including: "full depth" market data systems, order entry, various agency-style routing algorithms, and network architectures.

C, x86_64 Assembly, Lua

Cofounder 2010 - 2014

Decipher Media

Boston, Phoenix, San Francisco

Decipher media is a small software company focusing on iOS and OSX applications. I was responsible for the initial suite of products offered by Decipher Media, which grew out of a personal side project.

Objective C, SQLite

CEO / Cofounder 2007 - 2010

Peerium, Inc.

Cambridge, MA

Worked on the design of languages and run-time systems for building distributed algorithms (see patent filings).

Haskell, OCaml, C, Paxos

Software Developer 2000 - 2003

Akamai Technologies

Cambridge, MA

Worked as a member of the "mapping group" with the goal of creating a detailed connectivity and latency map of the Internet. Such maps form the basis of the Akamai routing systems.

C++, IPv4, Java, Perl

CTO / Cofounder 1995 - 1999

Iconomy, Inc.

Cambridge, MA

Led the technical team building an e-commerce system, including server management, database design, front- and back-end programming, and on-line credit card processing.

C, PHP, SQL

Software developer 1995

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Worked as a member of the "Pegasus" research group (later known as "Windows CE"), with a focus on the file-system layers of a mobile operating system.

C++

Education

PhD, Computer Science 2012: Harvard University
M.S. Computer Science 2005: Harvard University
B.S. Physics 2001: Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT)