Charlie Smith
Head Of Market Data Platform
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharlie Smith is a Head of Market Data Platform based in London with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems for hedge funds, telecoms and startups. He leads a team delivering real-time, low-latency tick data pipelines that ingest billions of ticks daily and manage hundreds of terabytes of historical storage for backtesting. Deeply hands-on in Python and JavaScript, his toolkit spans Refinitiv, Bloomberg, Kafka, Polars, Spark and MongoDB, reflecting a blend of low-latency engineering and large-scale data processing. Prior roles at Man Group range from staff engineer implementing systematic strategies to senior engineer delivering front-office infrastructure, while earlier work included embedded C++ for radio base stations and founding a spreadsheet-visualization startup. He combines quantitative trading domain knowledge with practical platform leadership, often translating research-grade algorithms into robust, auditable pipelines. Outside of work he publishes code on GitHub and has a background in electrical and electronics engineering, which informs his systems-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering With Honours (BE (Hons)) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering With Honours (BE (Hons)) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Canterbury
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (194)
stress-testing10
http-service10
performance-testing10
svg10
load-testing10
javascript10
scriptable10
arctic10
webgl10
aws-lambda10
benchmarking10
serverless-framework10
locust10
canvas10
google-chrome10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chazkii/chromewhip
Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
Scriptable Google Chrome™ as a HTTP service + asyncio driver
Contributions:5 releases, 83 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
asyncio-driverchrome-processpythonasyncioscriptable
chuckus/intellij-settings
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:165 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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