Thanos Vassilakis is a Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets, where he leads AI and architecture for Finance IT. He has spent decades building trading, risk, and operations platforms, ships open-source libraries, and writes about systems, data sketches, cryptography, and drones.
This site is the canonical public record of that work: a portfolio of roles and systems, a career timeline, articles, and a résumé.
Now
Technical leadership for Finance IT and Capital Markets platforms — architecture, AI/ML adoption, post-trade, supervision, and shared services.
Writes and builds
Capital markets, Finance IT, Artificial intelligence, Trading systems, Distributed systems, GPU computing, Open source, Python, Elixir, Rust, Data sketches, Cryptography.