John Taylor
Director Trading Technology at Galaxy Digital
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJohn Taylor is a Director of Trading Technology based in London with nine years of senior experience building high-frequency, low-latency FX trading systems for market making, OTC and algorithmic execution. He has a deep front-office technology background across top-tier firms including Galaxy Digital, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and Merrill Lynch, combining hands-on engineering with trading-domain expertise. His career traces back to multi-asset risk and trading platforms at Murex and specialist FX engineering at Cognotec, giving him a rare blend of product, infrastructure and latency-optimised system design. Known for taking complex institutional requirements into production, he focuses on reliability, performance tuning and pragmatic automation for live markets. Colleagues value his ability to bridge quants, traders and engineers to deliver auditable, high-throughput trading stacks.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
webjobs10
azure-cosmos-db9
azure-webjobs-sdk9
sdk9
azure-stream-analytics8
api8
cosmos8
dotnet8
azure-functions8
cosmosdb8
csharp8
partitioning7
azure7
stream6
webapp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JohnLTaylor/CosmosDbRepository
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 134 pushes in 10 months
JohnLTaylor/pocket-casts-media-controls
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Chrome extension that adds media key support to Pocket Casts webapp
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
castspocketchromepocket-castswebapp
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