Daniel Huber

Team Lead in Financial Technology | Learning AI Agents
📧 daniel.huber.dah@gmail.com 🔗 LinkedIn 🐙 GitHub

Professional Summary

Experienced Team Lead with 10+ years in financial technology at Leonteq, currently balancing three leadership roles: core platform team lead, tech lead on a client onboarding project (C#, REST API), and tech lead on the AI Foundry initiative. Completed Stanford's ML Specialization, Deep Learning Specialization, and Google's 5-day agent course. Now applying those skills hands-on - setting up internal AI infrastructure, stabilizing RAG systems, and advising teams building AI agents. Proven track record in stakeholder management, incident investigation, and team leadership.

10+
Years Financial Technology
3
Years Team Leadership
4
Developers Managed

Professional Experience

Tech Lead - AI Foundry & Client Onboarding - Director
Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Mar 2026 - Present

Took on tech lead responsibilities for two cross-team projects alongside continued team lead duties for the Sophis core development team.

  • AI Foundry: Driving internal AI adoption end-to-end - working with development teams on agent engineering while building the platform they run on: RAG, observability, vLLM serving and monitoring, agent frameworks (LangChain/DeepAgent), and open-source models on NVIDIA H100+ hardware
  • Client Onboarding: Leading development of the onboarding platform (C#, REST API), coordinating an external team alongside internal resources. Also introducing and leading the project team toward AI-assisted development and project workflows
  • Working with the security team on concepts for secure and compliant use of coding agents and internal AI agents across the company
Team Lead Sophis Core Development - Director
Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Jan 2023 - Present (3+ years)

Leading a team of 4 developers while serving as primary interface between technical team and business stakeholders. Managing incident investigations, requirements estimation for Business Analysts, and coordinating with operational risk teams.

  • Delivered AI agent proof-of-concept: multi-step system that digests research reports (PDFs), semantically matches underlyings to structured products, queries product database via RMQ, and ranks products using multi-model scoring with local LLM infrastructure
  • Global operations leadership: Daily coordination across Zürich, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guernsey, Amsterdam, and Lisbon offices
  • Level‑3 escalation and incident lead for Sophis Risque across time zones
  • Improved platform stability and release process reliability
  • Requirements analysis and estimation for Business Analyst requests across global stakeholder groups
  • Architected distributed EOD reporting system across 70 parallel processes, reducing runtime and improving stability
  • Effective incident resolution through root cause analysis and cross-system issue isolation
Senior Software Developer - Director
Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Enhanced system monitoring using Grafana and Kibana for real-time analytics. Developed intraday PNL/PLA reporting systems for trading desk. Key contributor to critical projects including LIBOR migration.

  • Built monitoring dashboards with Grafana/Kibana
  • Implemented real-time trading analytics and reporting
  • Enhanced mirror booking and implementation for a generic booking model driven by business analysts, reducing client onboarding complexity
  • Key contributor to LIBOR migration project
Software Developer - Associate
Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021 (5+ years)

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

  • 2020-2021: Key team member in Sophis Risque version migration (v6.3 to Fusion 7)
  • 2019: Automation tools for Trading & Treasury (C#, WPF, SQL)
  • 2016-2019: Developed analytics platform for full instrument pricing coverage
  • Part of regulatory projects (MIFID II, SFTR, 871m)
Software Developer - Analyst
Leonteq Securities AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Focused on reporting automation and distributed system implementation.

  • Enhancements for risk reporting systems
  • Barrier Monitoring
  • Automated instrument creation reducing manual work by 80%

Education

Informatik-Ingenieur FH, Computer Science
University of Applied Sciences FHNW
2011 - 2014

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

Mathematics
ETH Zürich
2009 - 2011

Mathematics studies building analytical and problem-solving foundations.

Certifications

Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI
In Progress

Neural networks, CNNs, and sequence models.

5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course
Google & Kaggle
Completed: 2025

Hands-on course covering AI agent architectures, tool integration, and multi-agent systems. View Badge

Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science
DeepLearning.AI
Completed: June 2025

Comprehensive mathematics program covering linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics essential for ML and data science.

Machine Learning Specialization
Stanford University & DeepLearning.AI
Completed: March 2025

Comprehensive machine learning program covering supervised learning, unsupervised learning, neural networks, and deep learning fundamentals.

Investing in Structured Products Program
IMD Business School
Completed: August 2022

Advanced program focusing on structured products investment strategies, risk management, and market dynamics.

Technical Skills

ML/AI Skills (Personal Development)

Machine Learning (Certified) Google ADK (Kaggle Competition) LangChain & LangGraph (Completed) Agent Architectures & Tool Integration Vector Search & RAG Python

Leadership & Management

Team Leadership Stakeholder Management Project Management SCRUM Incident Investigation

Financial Technology (10+ Years)

Sophis Risque Toolkit Structured Products Capital Markets Risk Management Options & Derivatives Bonds & Futures Swaps Trading Systems

Solid experience in mission-critical financial systems

Programming

Python C# Oracle SQL JavaScript C++ WPF .NET Blazor Solidity Mathematica

AI Frameworks & DevOps

LangChain LangGraph AiSuite Docker (Learning) Jenkins Control-M DevExpress Firebase Vercel

Languages

German: Native/C2 (First language - Swiss German dialect)
English: Professional/C1 (Business fluent, international financial services)

Current Learning Focus (Personal Time)

Applying agent development to financial systems - 15-20 hours/week

Applying to FinTech

Applying agent concepts to trading analysis and risk management through projects like backtest-agent. Combining 10+ years FinTech domain knowledge with agent development skills. Building practical agent-based solutions for financial systems and trading strategies.

Status: Current focus - Building agent-based financial applications

AI Agent Development

Completed Google's 5-day intensive agent course and LangGraph training. Built backtest-agent using Google ADK for Kaggle competition. Learned tool integration, state management, and multi-agent architectures.

Status: Completed - Courses + Kaggle competition submission

ML/AI Foundations

Completed Stanford Machine Learning Specialization and Mathematics for ML. Built solid understanding of supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, and mathematical foundations.

Status: Completed - 500+ hours invested through 2024

Technical Projects

Personal projects demonstrating ML/AI learning and financial technology expertise

Agent Arena - Agentic Trading Analysis

Agentic learning experiment combining LangGraph and vector search for crypto trading analysis. Explores multi-agent architectures for market data retrieval and strategy evaluation.

Technologies: LangGraph, Vector Search, AI Agents, Python, Crypto Trading | Live Demo | GitHub

Backtest-Agent - Trading Strategy Backtesting Agent

Trading strategy backtesting agent developed for Google's 5-day intensive agent course Kaggle competition. Built using agent frameworks to automate trading strategy analysis and optimization. Practical application of LangGraph and agent development concepts.

Technologies: AI Agents, LangGraph, Trading Strategies, Backtesting, Kaggle | GitHub | Kaggle Course

AstroWatch - Asteroid Tracking ML Project

Real-time asteroid tracking and impact visualization application powered by machine learning. Built with Next.js, Three.js, and TensorFlow.js, providing near-Earth object monitoring with interactive 3D visualizations and AI-driven risk predictions.

Technologies: Next.js, Three.js, TensorFlow.js, Machine Learning, 3D Visualization | Live Demo | GitHub
Generated: January 2025 | Feel free to reach out for professional discussions about technology, machine learning, or financial systems.