Luke Holmes
Senior Kdb Engineer at Data Intellect
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Holmes is a Senior kdb+ Engineer with eight years' experience building high-performance market data platforms and front-office tools for hedge funds and investment banks from Belfast. He combines deep kdb+ expertise with Python and React to deliver end-to-end systems—data pipelines, long-running historical stores, real-time tick UIs and rapid prototyping for trading desks. At firms including AquaQ, Citi and Version 1 he has productionized analytics and surveillance systems, optimized storage and query performance, and handled level-3 support and disaster recovery. His MSci in Physics with Astrophysics underpins a quantitative, experiment-driven approach to solving complex data problems. Notably, he has led cross-referenced securities master builds and a React trading interface layered on kdb+ tick feeds, demonstrating both backend scale and front-end product sensibility.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ballyclare High SchoolMSci Physics Astronomy and Astrophysics, MSci Physics Astronomy and Astrophysics at Queen's University Belfast
Irish, English
Github Skills (7)
kdb10
data-capture4
financial-data4
python3
financial3
finance3
fintech2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AquaQProdSupport2/reactdashboard
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
reacthdbspringrdbkdb
AquaQProdSupport2/TorQ-Finance-Starter-Pack
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Example data capture system, based on random financial data
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
financialpythonfinancial-datadata-capturefintech
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