@PennCareerDay on Twitter, our day in the life feed, is back! As we kick off OCR and Career Fair season, we hope that you’ll tune into @PennCareerDay to learn about the potential paths available to you – and keep coming back as we’ll feature a variety of careers all semester long. On Thursday, September 15th we welcome Luke Kopakowksi (C ’09). Luke will highlight one of the many paths available in investment banking – technology. To learn more about Luke, please read below and don’t forget to follow on Twitter!
Luke Kopakowski is a technology analyst at Barclays Capital in New York City. He started at Barclays with a summer internship in 2008 and then joined fulltime after graduating from Penn in 2009 with a B.A. in Physics. He went through the year and a half grad program at Barclays Capital, rotating through 3 divisions for 6 months each. Now, after 2 years at Barclays, he is a software engineer for the cash equities division and works mostly with java, web development, unix/linux, excel and databases/SQL. His team manages, develops and improves a complex software system that calculates fees associated with Barclays Capital’s equities trades.
