Andrius Markvaldas

Andrius Markvaldas is an engineering leader with over a decade of experience at the intersection of quantitative finance and large-scale data infrastructure. He has built multi-petabyte tick-data and database platforms for trading firms, enabling quantitative and high-frequency trading teams to manage billions of market events per day across research, trading, and risk. Earlier in his career, he worked on a quantitative market-making desk. Andrius has held leadership roles at Yugabyte, Snowflake, and Vertica, helping hedge funds modernize data architectures and reduce latency. He holds Master’s degrees from DePaul University and Northwestern University and now drives next-generation market data and AI architectures at VAST Data.