Benjamin Singleton
Director Of Investment Data Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBenjamin Singleton is a director-level software and data engineering leader with 12 years of experience building analytics and investment data platforms from public sector crime analytics to hedge fund research. Currently leading Investment Data Engineering at Viking Global Investors in New York, he combines hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions to a high-performance algorithmic trading platform’s Interactive Brokers adapter—with strategic delivery of large-scale data science and analytics programs. His career spans senior roles at JetBlue, the NYPD, and Sidewalk Labs, reflecting a rare mix of financial, transportation, and public-safety domain expertise. Benjamin is skilled at turning messy, regulated datasets into resilient production pipelines and analytics products that inform high-stakes decisions. He holds degrees from Yale and John Jay College and often bridges engineering, quantitative research, and operational stakeholders to drive measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at John Jay College (CUNY)Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Yale UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Regis High School
Github Skills (13)
asynchronous10
interactive-brokers10
api10
back-end-development10
python10
trading10
algorithmic-trading10
async10
asyncio10
trading-systems10
error-handling9
rust5
unit-testing4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the Interactive Brokers (IB) adapter within the algorithmic trading platform. Their work included adding a `HistoricInteractiveBrokersClient` for historical data retrieval, refactoring the IB client, and fixing related bugs. The user also worked on defining cryptocurrency instruments within the IB adapter and improving its connectivity resilience.
algorithmic-trading-enginepythonbacktesting-trading-strategiescrypto-tradingevent-driven
benjaminsingleton/nautilus_trader
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
Contributions:9 PRs, 63 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.