Andrew Jacobs
Software Engineer
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Jacobs is a software engineer with decades of experience building trading, risk and operations systems for derivatives across the City of London, North America and Europe. He combines hands-on development in Java and C# with architecture, project management and information modeling, and has led industry messaging standards work since FpML’s inception. As an author of core FpML Architecture and Messaging specifications and current chair/co-chair of several FpML working groups, he bridges standards, implementation and validation for complex financial XML ecosystems and represents ISDA at ISO 20022 RMG. He runs a private company delivering high-performance FpML processing software and advises firms on XML strategy and standards adoption. Before finance he designed a major relational database for geo-science software and worked on early UNIX telecom R&D, reflecting a long-standing interest in robust systems and “retro” programming. Based in the Greater Reading area, he blends deep product-domain knowledge with practical delivery of interoperable messaging solutions.
11 years of coding experience
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Birmingham University
Japanese
Github Skills (22)
z8010
sega-genesis10
zx-spectrum10
6800010
megadrive10
sdcc9
retrocomputing9
apple29
cnc-controller9
java8
gamemaker7
firmware7
assembler7
macros7
cpp5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andrew-jacobs/em-retro
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
handcoded/fpml-toolkit-csharp
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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