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
2025 — PresentSt Louis, MO
MS, Quantitative Finance
Washington University in St. Louis
GPA 4.0. Teaching Assistant for Investment Theory and Methods in Fintech.
Current2022Milan, Italy
BSc, Economics
Bocconi University
Thesis: Impact of US and EU Sanctions on the Russian Economy.
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.
CurrentOct 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.
CurrentApr 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.
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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
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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)