Miles Watson

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom1 yr 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Strong background in systems programming and trading technologies.
Proven track record in optimizing software development processes.
Experience in developing tools for high-frequency trading.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer specializing in Fintech and SAAS with a focus on systems programming.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonC++Electronic TradingReact.jsRustDocker

Other Skills

DebuggingProgram optimizationWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)C#Python (Programming Language)GitAmazon Web Services (AWS)Rust (Programming Language)CryptographyDistributed SystemsF#Svelte

About

Hi! I'm a CS graduate of the University of Cambridge interested in systems programming and the world of high frequency trading.

Experience

Jump trading group

2 roles

Software Engineer

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · City Of London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

PythonC++

Software Engineering Intern

Jul 2023 – Sep 2023 · 2 mos · City Of London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

Received and accepted a return offer.

DebuggingProgram optimizationElectronic TradingC++

Ocado technology

Software Development Intern

Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 · 2 mos · Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Worked as a core member of the PLC Services team to develop tooling and CICD pipelines for robots in Ocado's highly-automated warehouses, contributing to daily standups, design meetings, code reviews, and retrospectives
Developed new tools to validate the correctness and safety of PLC programs, and optimised existing ones to improve developer experience & reduce pipeline runtime
Designed and built an application to allow developers to efficiently resolve merge conflicts in complex binary files, removing a critical bottleneck in productivity for over 80 developers
Created a web-based frontend for the team's flagship product (completing work before initial estimates), secured endpoints with OIDC authentication, and contributed ideas towards the design of the backend architecture

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)C#Python (Programming Language)GitReact.jsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+1

Neuron tech limited

Software Engineer

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos · Remote

Reverse-engineered checkout & payment flows of popular E-commerce sites + payment providers, improving the product's marketable feature set and reducing failed checkouts due to edge-cases
Designed and built a centralized stock-monitoring service with Rust, which indirectly reduced the TCO of the product for customers and became responsible for coordinating over $1.5m of annual purchases
Created a monitoring dashboard for the aforementioned service, allowing the company to quickly diagnose issues and respond by changing configuration, decreasing common incident response time from 25 minutes to 30 seconds

DockerGitReact.jsRust (Programming Language)Rust