Indictable Offences
I work on the Data License team. We provide market data from a consistent, performant API. Our goal is to offer as many familiar Bloomberg features as possible via an intuitive REST API.
We use technologies and practices modern enough to threaten being trendy: Python, JSON-LD, Docker, Git, Jira, OpenGrok, CI/CD. I try to emphasize reliability, decoupling, and testability in my own work and other's.
I did: Strategy implementation; research platform development; execution automation; snapshotting and validation of time-series and static data; web tooling.
I used: Python; Pandas; other web and non-web Python libraries; MS SQL Server; custom in-house data store.
Bats is a pan-European and US financial exchange, offering low-cost, low-latency access to equities, options, ETFs, listings, and trade reporting.
As a Python developer on the Batch Team, I managed market data, monitored the exchange, and generated reports for health, performance, accounting, and compliance. My own accomplishments include new features, internal tools, and general improvements to our batch framework.
Smarkets is a betting exchange for sporting, media, and political events. The platform will match orders (bets) whole or in parts, reconciling the winnings when the event is over.
I programmed middleware in Python, and back-end code in Erlang. Various open source tools make up the development environment (git, VirtualBox/vagrant, PostgreSQL, to name a few).
Direct marketing — raising support for campaigns, actions and soliciting donations. Analysis of supporter base and donation revenue. Output lists for direct mailing/calling/emailing.
Part-time.
Forecasting and modelling for the exchange and brokerage cost management unit. Invoice processing, ad hoc business analysis, cost and savings reports.
Summary Convictions
Seema runs a business that incorporates new companies. The site's primary goal is to get prospective visitors to pick up the phone or fire off an email.
The site attempts to communicate the company's professional yet personal attitude. The design tries to avoid looking too legalistic or corporate, while also refraining from being too kitsch or twee.
Consistent lines, concise clear text, a splash of graphics, and a contemporary colour scheme help achieve this.
Graphic design par excellence. Dan has an eye for photography, a deft hand in Illustrator™, a nose for the zeitgeist, and great taste in typography. What more can you ask?
The site lets Dan organise his artwork in to client portfolios, and generate pages for each type of service he offers with tagging.
This site will be Dan's hub for anything he wants to communicate to the world about Creative Storm Ltd, his design company. It features a blog that updates his Facebook and Twitter feeds with the latest company news.
Exquisite moments, simply captured. Nick's site allows visitors to view his public portfolio, and lets customers log in and select photos for an album or print.
The back-end handles bulk image uploading. The site also features an interactive, jQuery-based photo gallery that resembles a bunch of polaroids (for click-based fun).
This is a personal project that began as a little excel tool for a friend needing to track his trading activities.
This is the attempt to make that tool a fully-fledged web application. <Sigh>
Juvenile Record
BA(Hons), Computation, 2:1. Some maths, programming, more maths, computers, then a little more maths.
A-Levels: A A A A; GCSEs: A* A* A* A* A A A B B B C