{"id":13,"date":"2011-07-20T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-01-23T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:21:17","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlappo\">Dr Peter Lappo (LinkedIn)<\/a><\/strong><strong> CEO \/ CTO<br \/>\nPhD, MSc (Finance), BSc 2.1, CITP (Charted IT Professional):\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><br \/>\nTwitter @pete_lappo<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dr_peter_lappo_cv-25-01.pdf\">Peter Lappo CV (pdf)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry ranging from developer, systems analyst and project manager. During this time he has been involved with systems in investment banking, finance, simulation and telecommunications. Since 1997 he has primarily been working on financial systems. He considers agile development as critical to his success in delivering projects and has been involved in the agile movement from its early days.<\/p>\n<p>Peter has a wide range of experience in implementation technologies mainly on Unix platforms\u00a0including:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Java<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Scala<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Javascript<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">SQL<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Python<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">R<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Objective C<\/span><\/li>\n<li>C++<\/li>\n<li>Unix Shell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has developed systems for :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Frequency \/ Low Latency Futures Trading\u00a0&#8211; Buy Side<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">FX and Forwards Trading &#8211; Buy Side<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">FX and Forwards pricing &#8211; Sell Side<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Equity trading\u00a0&#8211; Sell Side<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Fixed Income\u00a0trading\u00a0&#8211; Sell Side<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Interest Rate Swaps trading\u00a0&#8211; Sell Side<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peter has worked in the following financial institutions:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">RBS<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Man (AHL)<\/li>\n<li>Bear Stearns<\/li>\n<li>JP Morgan<\/li>\n<li>UBS<\/li>\n<li>Barclays<\/li>\n<li>Nomura<\/li>\n<li>Computer Share<\/li>\n<li>DRKW (now Commerze Bank)<\/li>\n<li>non finance BT \/ GPT \/ Link Miles \/ APS Berk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to developing core components very often Peter gets involved in performance optimisation in terms of memory and CPU utilisation and has had success in reducing latency and memory consumption often resulting in 50% improvements in performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Robert Gibbins BSc &#8211; Associate<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years in a number of roles including systems analysis, developer, database administrator and design consultant. During this time he has acquired extensive experience in database architecture with both Oracle and SQL server and application development using ASP, Java Script, HTML, XML, XSL, Visual Studio and .Net technologies. In recent years Robert has developed a customer relationship management (CRM) system in BT\u2019s UK research centre at Adastral Park, and is currently engaged in web development for a multinational pharmaceutical company\u2019s corporate portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Peter Lappo (LinkedIn) CEO \/ CTO PhD, MSc (Finance), BSc 2.1, CITP (Charted IT Professional):\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter @pete_lappo Peter Lappo CV (pdf)\u00a0 Peter has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry ranging from developer, systems analyst and project manager. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/?page_id=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/?page_id=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}