Chris Shucksmith
Principal Consultant at Tea Engineering Ltd.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Shucksmith is a Principal Consultant and seasoned systems engineer with 14 years of experience building low-latency, high-reliability trading infrastructure and market-making platforms across firms such as XTX Markets, BitMEX and GSA Capital. He combines deep systems-level expertise in multicast, FIX, TCP sockets and distributed position-keeping with practical software craftsmanship—demonstrated by contributions to open-source Django tooling that improved admin behaviors and swap functionality. A founding partner at XTX’s FX team, he has delivered per-client pricing, connectivity and live/live 24/5 reconciliation systems that balance speed with operational robustness. Based in London and educated at Oxford in Engineering and Computer Science, he brings a blend of research-grade rigor and hands-on implementation, often tackling the tricky interplay between hardware, network protocols and production software.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Engineering and Computer Science, M.Eng Engineering and Computer Science at University of OxfordElectronics Maths Physics Computing A-levels, Electronics Maths Physics Computing A-levels at John Leggott College
Github Skills (5)
django-admin10
python10
django10
testing9
git7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
django-ordered-model/django-ordered-model
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Get your Django models in order
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 22 reviews, 92 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Django application. Their work involved fixing bugs, particularly related to URL handling and admin interface behavior. They also implemented a feature to allow swapping of model instances, adhering to the documentation. Additionally, the user addressed test configurations and applied code formatting using Black.
pythondjangodjango-modelsin-orderdjango-admin
TeaEngineering/aiokdb
Nov 2017 - Apr 2025
Pure Python asyncio connector to KDB
Contributions:31 releases, 1 review, 33 PRs in 7 years 5 months
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