Meet the Team: Lucien Iseli
Questions and Answers with one of our engineers.
What do you like the most about working at SwissBorg?
Working on very interesting projects technically and being able to propose ideas and develop solutions with real impact on the business.
I also find crypto very interesting from a societal and financial point of view. I work on the trading system and we keep improving and rethinking the logic of trading to handle more orders and find the best price opportunities in the market.
How have you grown in your career since joining SwissBorg?
I joined as an intern 1.5 years ago. I researched a new algorithm to improve the trading execution speed for users. Then, I was hired as an engineer and worked on productionising my research and developing the trading system. 4 months ago, I was promoted to engineer 2 and started contributing to even more projects.
You are a member of Thematics — what is the purpose of this team?
The purpose of the Thematics team is to build investment products based on value. This means we allow users to invest in, for example, the future of the internet. Users then can invest and participate in the creation of that new internet.
Concretely, users will buy in one-click multiple hand-picked cryptos that contribute to the vision of that thematic. These coins would then periodically be rebalanced to keep the intended exposure. This allows for diversifying the assets, managing the portfolio automatically and avoiding the trouble of finding which are the top cryptos in one area.
What excites you the most about the future of SwissBorg?
- Scaling even further the trading system to handle many constant orders as well as spikes during moving markets.
- Improving transparency and trust in our system regarding how we handle funds.
- Fully automated portfolios using Thematics to have exposure in multiple asset classes.
Why Scala? And how do we use it here at SwissBorg?
I’ve always liked functional programming and the mathematical reasoning that comes with it. I studied at EPFL with Prof. Martin Odersky and did multiple uni-research projects in Scala.
Scala is useful because it is based on JVM and the functional nature helps, in my opinion, to deliver faster and with fewer bugs thanks to immutability and pure functions.
What is one fun fact about you?
I dance tango and love dancing!
