CppCon 2026

Andrew Drakeford has a PhD in Physics and began developing C++ applications in the early 1990s at British Telecom Laboratories. For the past two decades, he has worked in finance, building high-performance calculation libraries and trading systems in C++.His current focus is making numerical computation both bitwise reproducible and fast across heterogeneous platforms - "slaying the ghosts in the machine". He is a member of the BSI C++ Panel. His interests include software architecture, SIMD, CUDA, HPC, low-latency computing, quantitative finance, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and systematic market-making strategies.