Alex Mcbride
Director - Lead Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Mcbride is a Director and Lead Software Engineer based in Glasgow with 11 years of experience building and leading teams on low-latency, mission-critical trading systems at Morgan Stanley. He has progressed through roles from graduate Java developer to leading the stock loan/repo mark-to-market renovation and previously architected a Scala-based rewrite of securities lending flows covering trade booking through settlement. Comfortable across Java, Scala, Python, C# and JavaScript, he blends hands-on engineering with SDLC and team leadership across multiyear programs. Known for shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions in complex financial domains, he also has a track record of improving algorithmic option handling and performance early in his career. His background—First Class BSc in Computing and an HND in Software Development—underpins a practical, results-driven approach that bridges trading domain expertise and software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
HND, Software Development, A, HND, Software Development, A at City of Glasgow CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computing, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing, First Class Honours at Glasgow Caledonian University
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alexmcbride/bushero
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:208 commits, 171 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 1 month
alexmcbride/insimdotnet
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
.NET InSim library for the racing simulator Live for Speed.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 151 commits in 8 years 6 months
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