HOW A SELF-TAUGHT FILIPINO CODER GAVE THE MARKET A CONSCIENCE

By Special Report by Forbes Technology DeskHe wasn’t from the finance elite. That’s how he beat them all.Quezon City, Philippines — A decade ago, Joseph Plazo coded algorithms during brownouts, lit by candles and ambition.A secondhand laptop. A wobbly table. But the simulations ran.He was coding a tool the world hadn’t asked for—an algori