Daniel Huber

Team Lead in Financial Technology | AI Agent Development

Recently delivered an AI agent proof-of-concept for research report analysis using multi-model pipelines and semantic search. Team Lead at Leonteq with 10+ years in financial technology, managing a distributed team building mission-critical trading systems.

About Me

Leading a team of 4 developers across Zürich and Lisbon. Owning incident resolution and operational risk analysis across time zones (Singapore to Europe). Bridging engineering and business stakeholders.

Over the past decade I've progressed from analyst to director, working across pricing/analytics, regulatory projects (MiFID II, SFTR, FRTB), and platform migrations. Currently contributing to AI Foundry initiative - deploying local LLM infrastructure and RAG applications.

Experience Highlights

10+
Years Financial Technology
4
Developers Led
3
Time Zones

Professional Experience

Jan 2023 - Present

Team Lead Sophis Core Development - Director

Leonteq Securities AG | Leading 4 developers across Zürich and Lisbon

Leading a team of 4 developers across Zürich and Lisbon. Owning incident resolution and operational risk analysis across time zones (Singapore to Europe). Bridging engineering and business stakeholders.

  • Contributing to AI Foundry initiative (since Aug 2025) - internal project deploying local LLM infrastructure and RAG applications
  • Delivered internal presentation on AI Agents (Nov 2025)
  • Delivered Proof-of-Concept: Research Report Analysis Agent - multi-model pipeline that digests research PDFs, identifies relevant underlyings via semantic search, queries product database, and scores product-to-trend alignment using local LLM infrastructure
  • Lead 4 developers across Zürich and Lisbon, coordinating incident management with Singapore, Amsterdam offices
  • Hands‑on development and architecture for Sophis platform components used in real‑time trading
  • Designed a distributed P&L attribution workflow to improve visibility of risk exposures (70 parallel processes)
  • Partnered with quants and risk to translate financial requirements into maintainable solutions
  • Improved platform stability through structured incident reviews and proactive monitoring
  • Contributor to FRTB implementation across trading desks
  • Level‑3 escalation and incident lead for the Sophis Risque platform across time zones (engineering ownership, not a support position)
Team Leadership Global Operations Reliability Incident Response Cross-System Debugging Platform Stability Distributed Systems Sophis Risque SCRUM LLM/RAG AI Agents
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

Senior Software Developer - Director

Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Implemented generic booking model for mirror booking, reducing client onboarding complexity. Key contributor to LIBOR migration.

  • Implemented generic booking model for mirror booking driven by business analysts
  • Reduced client onboarding complexity through standardized booking workflows
  • Key contributor to LIBOR migration project
Grafana Kibana Real-time Analytics Data Monitoring
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021

Software Developer - Associate

Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Progressed through multiple roles focusing on automation, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

  • 2020–2021: Team member in Sophis version migration (v6.3 to Fusion 7)
  • 2019: Automation tools for Trading & Treasury (C#, WPF, SQL)
  • 2016–2019: Developed analytics platform for instrument pricing coverage; migration to internal quant pricing engine
  • Contributed to regulatory projects (MiFID II, SFTR, 871m)
C# WPF SQL Automation Risk Systems
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015

Software Developer - Analyst

Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Focused on reporting automation and distributed system implementation. Automated creation of listed instruments via SmartCo integration.

  • Enhancements for risk reporting systems
  • Barrier monitoring
  • Automated instrument creation; reduced manual work by ~80%
Automation Distributed Systems Reporting

Education

2011 - 2014

Informatik-Ingenieur FH, Computer Science

University of Applied Sciences FHNW

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with focus on practical software engineering, algorithms, and system design. Completed several industry-relevant projects including algorithmic trading, GPU programming, and financial portfolio management systems.

Computer Science Software Engineering Algorithms System Design
2009 - 2011

Mathematics Studies

ETH Zürich

Mathematics studies at Switzerland's leading technical university. Built strong foundation in linear algebra, calculus, probability theory, and mathematical analysis. Transitioned to applied computer science to focus on practical implementation of mathematical concepts.

Linear Algebra Calculus Probability Theory Statistics

Certificates

Deep Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI · In Progress

Neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, sequence models, and deep learning optimization techniques.

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5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course

Google & Kaggle · 2025

Agent architectures, tool integration, Google ADK. Built Backtest-Agent for Kaggle competition.

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Machine Learning Specialization

Stanford University & DeepLearning.AI · March 2025

Supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, deep learning fundamentals.

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Mathematics for ML and Data Science

DeepLearning.AI · June 2025

Linear algebra, calculus, probability, statistics.

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Structured Products Program

IMD Business School · August 2022

Investment strategies, risk management, complex financial instruments.

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Projects

Personal projects applying ML/AI and agent development to financial technology

Academic Projects

Algorithmic Trading and Text-Mining

Feb 2014 - Aug 2014

Study project combining textual data mining with technical analysis and portfolio theory for automated trading strategies.

University of Applied Sciences FHNW
Java Text Mining Information Retrieval Technical Analysis Portfolio Theory

Progressive Graphics File (PGF) on GPU

Feb 2014 - June 2014

GPU-accelerated image processing using wavelet transformation and parallel algorithms for progressive graphics file format optimization.

University of Applied Sciences FHNW
C++ AMP GPU Programming Wavelet Transformation Parallel Algorithms

MyTrendRadar

Sep 2013 - Feb 2014

Portfolio management and trend analysis system developed for Dufour Capital AG, combining financial mathematics with web technologies.

University of Applied Sciences FHNW
Customer: Dufour Capital AG
JavaScript Java Mathematica MySQL Joomla

Technical Skills

FinTech Domain (10+ Years)

Sophis Risque Structured Products Risk Management Trading Systems Capital Markets

Engineering & Leadership

C# / .NET SQL Distributed Systems Team Leadership Incident Response

Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out for professional discussions about technology, machine learning, or financial systems.