Jim Moores
Director at NatWest Markets
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJim Moores is a London-based software leader and entrepreneur with 16 years’ experience building concurrent, Java-based systems for financial services. He co-founded OpenGamma and McLeod Moores, held senior roles at State Street, and now serves as a Director at NatWest Markets, blending hands-on architecture with product and platform strategy. His background spans low-latency risk and trading platforms, team leadership, and commercialising developer-heavy financial tooling. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, he pairs deep academic rigour with repeated startup exits and enterprise-scale delivery. Notably, he has shifted between founding businesses and driving transformation inside large banks, bringing both builder mentality and institutional discipline.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (102)
xll10
excel10
fixprotocol10
rest-api10
quandl10
api10
rest10
java10
ipc9
multicast9
javafx9
controlsfx9
complement8
messaging8
tcp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
McLeodMoores/maven-native-packaging
Sep 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
McLeodMoores/starling-tools
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Tooling projects for Starling
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 years 4 months
toolingstarling
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