About · Fig. 02

Lorenzo Pulcini

I work at the intersection of financial theory and software engineering. I am completing an MS in Quantitative Finance at Washington University in St. Louis; before that I was a Senior Software Engineer at Accenture, building high-frequency transaction infrastructure for a major financial institution.

Seeking Fall 2026 internships


Section 01

Education

2025 — PresentSt Louis, MO

MS, Quantitative Finance

Washington University in St. Louis

GPA 4.0. Teaching Assistant for Investment Theory and Methods in Fintech.

Current
2022Milan, Italy

BSc, Economics

Bocconi University

Thesis: Impact of US and EU Sanctions on the Russian Economy.


Section 02

Experience

June 2026 — July 2026St. Louis

Fixed Maturities Securities Engineer Intern

RGA

Jan 2026 — PresentSt Louis, MO

Teaching Assistant

Washington University in St. Louis

  • Teaching Assistant for Investment Theory and Methods in Fintech.
Current
Oct 2025 — PresentSt Louis, MO

Data Analyst — Campus Operations

Washington University in St. Louis

  • Develop reproducible Python/SQL ETL pipelines to clean and transform complex utilization datasets.
  • Quantify space usage patterns to inform resource allocation and strategic planning.
Current
Apr 2023 — Jul 2025Milan, Italy

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture

  • Architected systems processing more than one million daily transactions for a major financial institution.
  • Led the migration of a core transaction proxy from Java to Go, improving throughput by 10%.
  • Engineered a RAG system for natural-language queries on internal documentation.
  • Designed Kafka monitoring pipelines handling 500K+ daily messages.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2024Milan, Italy

Co-Founder & CTO

Raccoon Fantasy

  • Designed a dynamic in-game market economy with liquidity monitoring and pricing algorithms.
  • Built scalable multiplayer infrastructure supporting 150+ concurrent players.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2024Milan, Italy

Co-Founder & COO

Similar

  • Built a personalized recommendation engine and its complete ML pipeline.
  • Placed third in a startup incubator competition and attracted initial investor funding.

Section 03

Ventures & applied work

2020 — 2024

Raccoon Fantasy

Co-Founder & CTO

Blockchain-based multiplayer game with a dynamic market economy and pricing algorithms.

Node.jsGame DevMarket Microstructure
2021 — 2022

Similar

Co-Founder & COO

Film and TV recommendation system trained on user viewing history.

Machine LearningETLTesting
2018

IBM Watson Insurance AI

Developer

Image-recognition application for insurance damage assessment.

IBM WatsonAIImage Recognition

Section 04

Skills & credentials

Quantitative Finance

Derivatives PricingAsset PricingStochastic CalculusTime-Series AnalysisPortfolio OptimizationBacktestingRisk Modeling

Engineering

PythonGoRustSQLKafkaDistributed SystemsETL PipelinesKubernetesCI/CD

Credentials

CFA Level 1 CandidateBloomberg Market ConceptsQuantum Machine Learning (IBM)

Languages

Italian (Native)English (Fluent)Spanish (Intermediate)