Alex Mcardle
Senior Associate, Trading Assistant Team - UK Macro & Credit
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Mcardle is a commercially driven front-office finance professional with nine years' experience across macro and credit trading support at leading asset managers, currently a Senior Associate on Balyasny’s UK Macro & Credit Trading Assistant team. He combines trade lifecycle and settlement expertise from roles at Société Générale and BlueMountain with hands-on associate-level experience helping execution and portfolio teams at Balyasny. Comfortable operating at the intersection of operations and trading, he is known for pragmatic problem-solving, streamlining processes that reduce operational friction for traders. Alex’s background in legal studies and communication roles—plus early leadership managing large youth programmes—gives him an unusually strong mix of regulatory awareness and stakeholder management for a front-office practitioner.
9 years of coding experience
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Marist College AthloneBachelor of Arts (BA), Legal Studies and English, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Legal Studies and English at National University of Ireland, Galway
English, French
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Github contributions (5)
apjm/hello-world
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
practice repository
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
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ovotech/circleci-orbs
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
CircleCI Orbs
Contributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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