# About the Founder Peter Spiro graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in computer science and worked as a software developer for 25 years, managing teams and writing code in C++ and Java. The last 15 years of those years were spent as a senior developer and team manager at Interactive Brokers, an online broker. During that time, he worked extensively on both the frontend and backend of their online trading platform and developed a thorough knowledge of equity and options markets. He created their API for programmatic trading which is now utilized by Reflection and hundreds of other companies around the world to automate their trading. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.reflection.trading/about-the-founder.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.