Kirk Wylie
Head Of Engineering And Interim CTO at Quantifi
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKirk Wylie is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and risk systems across startups and major financial institutions. Currently Head of Engineering and Interim CTO at Quantifi, he blends hands-on technical depth—from early coding and database engine work to designing Kubernetes-based application platforms—with strategic leadership proven at State Street, UBS, and NatWest. He founded OpenGamma and led it through multiple funding rounds, bringing a Silicon Valley open-source ethos to derivatives risk and trading while also driving large transformation programs (microservices, CI/CD, cloud-first) in global banks. Known for rapidly assembling and scaling teams and delivery models, he pairs product-focused architecture with deep domain knowledge in trading and risk. Based in London and Berkeley-educated in EECS, he uniquely combines startup grit with enterprise governance to deliver auditable, production-grade systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (13)
publish-subscribe6
finance6
jms6
socket6
jboss6
cross-platform6
messaging6
java6
openjdk5
complex-event-processing4
quantitative-finance4
python4
analytics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGamma/Fudge-Java
Aug 2009 - Aug 2010
Contributions:112 commits in 1 year
OpenGamma/OG-Platform
Aug 2009 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1058 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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