Steve Lazzo
Chief Technology Officer
Steve Lazzo leads the technology teams for trading, data, and infrastructure. He joined Teza in 2023 as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Teza, Steve spent eight years at Allston Trading both as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer. He led the software development, infrastructure, and operations teams. At Allston, he developed an ultra-low latency futures trading platform, a compute cluster, and a revised data management system.
Previously, he was at Citadel LLC for 10 years serving as both a manager and developer in the High Frequency Trading Group, the Statistical Arbitrage Team, and the Options Market Making Group. He was responsible for the technology team that built Citadel’s first HFT platform, and personally wrote their first algo trading engine and real-time position management system.
Before that, Steve spent 10 years at UBS AG as Director where he built systems for equity options trading, pricing, and risk management. Steve has a Master of Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.