Ali Cigari
Front Office Software Engineer, Executive Director at Castleton Commodities International
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAli Cigari is a software engineer and quantitative analyst with 12 years of experience delivering high-stakes front-office trading and data-driven software. He has led engineering and data science as VP of Engineering, Head of Quantitative Analysis, and Executive Director, and founded Wattson Blue and Cigari Limited. Currently at Castleton Commodities International as Front Office Software Engineer and Executive Director, he builds scalable trading and risk systems. Ali blends hands-on development with strategic leadership to solve complex financial and scientific challenges, turning ideas into reliable products and scalable platforms. He holds a DPhil in Computer Science and Oncology from the University of Oxford, with MSc and MA from Oxford and Cambridge, underscoring a rare mix of academic depth and practical software craft. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he is open to new opportunities and eager to apply his breadth of fintech, quantitative, and startup experience to new challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of OxfordMaster of Arts (MA), Master of Arts (MA) at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (62)
jquery-plugin10
phonegap10
countdown10
timer10
cubes10
countdown-timer10
cordova-plugin10
cordova9
jquery9
in-app-purchase9
screen-orientation9
orientation8
pocketbase8
django8
flask8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oofaish/countdownCube
May 2013 - Aug 2021
a jQuery plugin that creates a countdown timer in years, months, days, hours and seconds in the form a bunch of rotating 3d cubes
Contributions:20 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 years 4 months
monthsjquerycubesrotatingjavascript
oofaish/qpScroll
Dec 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 11 months
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