About

Hello, and welcome to my personal site!

I am a professional software engineer, working in FinTech. I primarily work in Python and Java, with an emphasis on data-driven applications.

When away from the keyboard, I love to take photos, read, boulder and cook!

Work

Software Engineer

MarketAxess

London, United Kingdom

2024 - Present

Lead developer on a new Java data product, processing millions of transactions on an hourly basis.
Collaborated with stakeholders to capture requirements, estimate effort and iterate frequently.
Created and monitored SLOs via Datadog, ensuring 99.9+% successful executions.
Created integration tests to ensure full functional coverage on the new service.
Developed, in collaboration with data science, a GenAI PoC for Client Services, saving on average 15 minutes per query.
Built a service to extract over 15 million transactions daily from MongoDB.
Mentored new hires and interns through presentations, chats and pair programming.

JavaPythonPandasMongoDBGenerative AI

Associate Software Engineer

MarketAxess

London, United Kingdom

2021 - 2023

Sole Python developer within Agile scrum team, owning two complete microservices within the SensAI product.
Created a microservice capable of extracting and transforming over 20 million transactions daily.
Developed, and assisted with the research of, a microservice that applies complex business logic and statistical analysis to millions of transactions daily.
Assumed ownership of the data within the product, answering queries from the business.
Defined standards for Python microservices within the business.
Developed a time-series ML model detecting outliers on trade reporting volumes.
Assisted data scientists with automation, client requests, data pipelines and PoCs.

PythonPandasAWSMachine Learning

Studies

Grade: First-Class Honours

University College London, United Kingdom

2017-2021

Strong emphasis on fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, maths and theory of computation.
Optional modules focused on ML, including NLP and Deep Learning.
Master’s project was in Bioinformatics, entitled ‘Utilising Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnostics.
Course was structured as a four-year integrated Master’s degree.

AlgorithmsData StructuresMachine LearningSoftware DesignFunctional Programming

Projects

Contributed to an open-source database of camera data, filling in missing entries from the last three years.
Built an open-source scraper to parse relevant content, and structure to match existing data files.
Work is in progress to leverage data for a game and ML project.

PythonData ScrapingOpen-Source Contributions

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