Chris Kent
Software Engineer at AWS
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Kent is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems across finance and cloud platforms. He created Osiris, a serverless web app framework, and served as a Senior SDE at AWS, bringing deep expertise in serverless architectures and performance optimization. At OpenGamma he was a principal contributor to the Strata analytics library, driving refactors, memory and performance improvements that benefited financial risk calculations. Based in London with an MEng from Oxford, he blends low-level backend improvements with cloud-native design, frequently surfacing pragmatic engineering trade-offs that reduce operational cost. Notably, his work spans both open-source financial tooling and high-scale commercial services, showing a rare mix of domain depth and cloud engineering.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Engineering Science, MEng, Engineering Science at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (13)
finance10
javas10
statistical-models10
back-end-development10
java10
modeling10
data-structure9
data-structures9
performance-tuning9
code-optimization9
testing8
multithreading8
generics6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGamma/Strata
Jul 2014 - Jun 2019
Open source analytics and market risk library from OpenGamma
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 518 commits, 378 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve refactoring and enhancing the core functionality of the financial analytics library. This is shown by the creation of marker interfaces, the addition of utility classes, and the adjustment of the result objects to allow them to be used with multiple scenarios. The user has also contributed to performance and memory improvements in areas such as stack trace handling and data persistence.
etdanalyticsmarket-riskpythonotc
cjkent/idea-settings
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:404 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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