John Dempster
Software Engineer at TimeStored
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Dempster is a seasoned software engineer based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building Java-based trading and large-scale distributed systems. He has moved from data analysis and financial engineering roles into consulting and long-term product development, deploying software across hundreds of machines and enabling automated human–computer interaction. At Mitsubishi UFJ Securities he worked on a bond trading platform supporting backtesting and live strategies, and at PKR Consulting he developed web data interpreters and scalable deployment tooling. Currently at TimeStored he continues to apply pragmatic engineering to production systems, favoring practical solutions and new technologies. Collected experience across banking, consulting, and software firms gives him a strong mix of domain knowledge in finance and operational expertise in large deployments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (14)
timescaledb10
questdb10
duckdb10
kdb10
postgresql10
sql10
mysql10
database10
clickhouse10
qlang9
paypal5
jq5
jvm4
js3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
timestored/qstudio
May 2016 - Apr 2025
qStudio - Free SQL Analysis Tool
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 years 11 months
sqldatabaseduckdbkdbclickhouse
timeseries/qstudio-plugin-example
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 29 days
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