Godwin KANLINSOU

Godwin KANLINSOU

Aspiring Quant Developer · C++ / Python

Software Engineering student at EFREI Paris (graduating 2027) — looking for a Quant Developer internship.

About Me

Software engineering student at EFREI Paris & Panthéon-Assas University, targeting a front-office quant developer role. I have a strong foundation in modern C++ and Python, and hands-on experience building tested, performance-minded systems and integrating banking and payment APIs.

I am comfortable across the full engineering lifecycle (architecture, unit testing, containerized deployment, CI/CD) and I care about writing code that is correct, maintainable and fast, and that stays close to the business logic. My latest project is a Black-Scholes options pricing engine in C++ with Python bindings.

Featured Project

Options Pricing Engine 📈 GitHub

A European options pricing engine in C++17, built to production-code standards. It has a Black-Scholes analytical pricer with full Greeks (Δ, Γ, ν, Θ, ρ) and a clean instrument / market data / model split. It is unit-tested with Catch2 (put-call parity, finite-difference validation of the Greeks, T→0 and σ→0 edge cases, NaN safety) and exposed to Python via pybind11.

C++17CMakeCatch2Black-Scholespybind11

Technical Skills

Core

C++ (C++17) Python (NumPy) Software Architecture Unit Testing Low-latency mindset

Quant / Finance

Options Pricing (Black-Scholes) Greeks Monte Carlo Banking & Payment APIs

Tooling

CMake Catch2 pybind11 Docker CI/CD Git Bash Linux / VPS

Also

Java / Spring Boot C# / .NET Haskell SQL (MySQL / PostgreSQL) PHP / Laravel Node.js React / Vue.js Flutter

Professional Experience

Work-Study Full-Stack Developer — WIZIN Sept 2024 – Present · Paris
  • Integrated a banking API handling transfers, transaction-history processing and recipient management. This gave me direct exposure to financial data flows and their correctness constraints.
  • Built an LLM-powered document-processing tool for rating and classification.
  • Implemented automated frontend tests (Cypress) for web-application forms.
  • Contributed to the continuous development of production web applications.
Software Developer — TrueFalse Mar 2025 – Present · Paris
  • Built backend services in Python / Flask.
  • Managed a self-hosted development and deployment platform on a VPS.
  • Containerized and orchestrated applications with Docker.
  • Handled server configuration, monitoring and performance optimization.
Software Developer Intern — SAV PLUS Apr 2023 – July 2023 · Cotonou
  • Developed an event-ticketing site with real payments and QR-code tickets, plus a Flutter app to authenticate them on-site.
  • Built a corporate messaging platform (PHP/Laravel) with client dashboards.
  • Automated remote meetings via Google OAuth; customized Odoo CRM.

Other Projects

Universon Preview

Universon 🔗 Live

A social app built around your music taste (Spotify API, OAuth2, MySQL), self-hosted on a VPS. It connects users through listening habits and lets them show off their tastes in an immersive 3D museum.

E-shop Preview

E-shop 🛒 Live

An e-commerce site built from scratch with Laravel. It has cart management and payment integration, and it is self-hosted.

Event QR Preview

Event QR App 📱 GitHub

An encrypted QR-ticket mobile app with anti-fraud checks (Flutter, Android SDK, SHA hashing), used to generate and verify event tickets.

Education

Languages & Activities

English: Fluent — C1 Level (Oxford Test)  ·  French: Native

Activities: Volunteer at Paris City Hall · French National Eloquence Contest · Student Representative at CROUS Paris

Get In Touch

Open to Quant Developer internship opportunities.

kanlinsougodwin@gmail.com
Paris, France

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