Career & Profession

I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer for a large UK Investment Bank, developing various real-time electronic trading systems. My primary focus has been developing algorithmic trading software against European equity exchanges.

Project Summary:

• Smart actionable indication of interest (IOI) routing
• Capital commitment, Central Risk and automated facilitation/risk unwinding algorithms
• Prop market making and algorithmic trading
• Core client algo stack
• Smart order routing (SOR)
• Real-time system monitoring
• Native market exchange connectivity
• Risk monitoring

Main Technologies:

• Java 8 / C++
• Middleware (Solace/Tib)
• Linux

At Thomson Reuters I worked in various teams within the data collections and distribution department. Primary concern was the delivery of real-time level 1 & 2 tick data from European and North American stock exchanges.

Development focused on high-throughput, low-latency quote processing systems, receiving trade/quote data from exchanges, normalising, adding value and distributing to clients.

The systems had to provide a high level of redundancy, to ensure accuracy of data in the event of service disruption.

Main Technologies:

• C++/Windows Advanced Server (VS2003-2008 32/64-bit)
• C++/Solaris (Solaris 8/10, UltraSpac III & AMD Opteron)
• C/VMS (HP OpenVMS)

Deployed hardware included HP DL-585, IBM BladeCenter, Sun Fire 4800 & HP AlphaServer ES45.

Graduated with First Class Honours MEng Software Engineering degree from Southampton University.

Main Technologies:

• C/C++
• Java
• Scripting (Perl, TCL, Bash, Ash…)
• Web (PHP, MySQL, Perl CGI)

Projects:

• 3rd Year Project - Network Management using Abstracted XML Specifications
• Networking Project - Transparent Mobile IP