Samuel Ventimiglia.
CTO at Campsor Capital. London. 24/7 trading systems, low-latency execution, regulated infrastructure.
This is my personal site. I write here occasionally about the engineering work I find interesting — latency regimes, regulated systems under DORA, MiCA, the EU AI Act, and the practical edges of AI infrastructure.
Day job: Chief Technology Officer at Campsor Capital, a quantitative-value crypto hedge fund. I run the technology behind 24/7 trading — low-latency execution, market data across fragmented venues, and the engineering side of regulatory compliance under DORA, MiCA and the EU AI Act.
Seventeen years of engineering before that. I founded Heveloon Ltd and grew it across four industries, and co-founded InceptionX, an AI company working on carbon-footprint measurement. Earlier I led delivery for UniCredit, Moncler and Dolce & Gabbana — including an AWS cloud migration that needed special authorisation from the Bank of Italy, one of the first of its kind.
What I work on
- Trading
- Low-latency execution and market data across fragmented venues
- Custody
- Client-asset segregation, reconciliation, counterparty risk
- Regulation
- DORA, MiCA and the EU AI Act — the engineering side
- Cloud
- Cloud-native architecture and AI/ML integration
- Stack
- Go, Python, Node.js, PHP — AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Recent essays
- Tokenising property and shares: what gets builtTokenising real estate or equity turns on one question: does the ledger become the legal register, or shadow one? That answer sets the build.
- Tokenising property and shares: what gets builtTokenising real estate or equity turns on one question: does the ledger become the legal register, or shadow one? That answer sets the build.
- How HFT is different in crypto marketsHigh-frequency trading in crypto isn't TradFi HFT with new tickers. 24/7 clocks, fragmented venues with no consolidated tape, and on-chain settlement rewrite the assumptions before you write a line of code.
- EU AI Act Article 12: tamper-evident logging for high-risk AI systemsEU AI Act Article 12 requires tamper-evident logging for every high-risk AI system. Deadline 2 August 2026. Here is what compliant logging actually means.
- DORA compliance without a full-time CTO: what it actually requiresDORA applied January 2025. The regulation reads like documentation work and lands like systems work. Here is what your engineers actually have to build — and what it costs.
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