Juliette James
Research Software Engineer at QuantStart
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJuliette James is a Research Software Engineer based in London with eight years of experience at the intersection of scientific research and production software. She holds a PhD in Structural, Computational and Chemical Biology from UCL and leverages that domain expertise to build Python-based data pipelines, analysis tools, and visualisations—work that began in proteomics and now includes financial data analysis. At QuantStart she maintains the open-source QSTrader library on PyPI, containerises Django/Python sites for Dev and Prod, and even runs a SLURM scheduler on a Raspberry Pi HPC cluster, showing a knack for pragmatic, resourceful infrastructure. Her contributions to QSTrader focus on backend robustness—refactoring, handling deprecated APIs, and improving data and broker integrations—demonstrating attention to reproducibility and long-term maintenance. Colleagues value her blend of rigorous scientific training and practical engineering that turns complex analytical workflows into reliable, deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Biochemsitry, 1st, Bachelor's Degree, Biochemsitry, 1st at University College London, U. of LondonCert. Higher Education, Life Science, subjects allied to Medicine, Distinction, Cert. Higher Education, Life Science, subjects allied to Medicine, Distinction at Birkbeck College, University of LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (4)
python10
pandas10
numpy9
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
mhallsmoore/qstrader
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
QuantStart.com - QSTrader backtesting simulation engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 2 commits, 26 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Juliette primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the QSTrader backtesting engine. Their work included updating package requirements, fixing deprecated code, and updating the version number. They also refactored and implemented code changes in multiple Python files related to data handling, statistics, and the broker integration, ensuring code compatibility, and adding functionality such as saving tearsheets.
pythonequitiessimulationsimulation-enginebacktesting
juliettejames/dotfiles
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Conf files
Contributions:15 PRs, 11 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 8 months
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