Summary
Matt Doherty is an Engineering Team Lead with 12 years’ experience building high-throughput data platforms for finance, currently leading data engineering for fixed income at Millennium Management from Belfast. He has designed petabyte-scale, kdb+ columnar systems serving trillions of records per month and built an AWS-backed real-time analytics platform delivering millisecond latency to 50+ trading groups. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a manager, he combines Python, SQL Server and orchestration tools (consul/nomad, TeamCity) with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog) to drive robust production environments. His background includes consulting and training roles focused on kdb+ and a physics PhD, giving him a strong analytical foundation and a knack for communicating complex technical ideas. He’s delivered cross-asset market data ingestion for Refinitiv, Bloomberg and Exegy and has a track record of growing internal user adoption quickly. Colleagues value his blend of deep low-latency systems expertise and curiosity across visualization and data applications.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level and GCSE's, A-Level and GCSE's at Wallace High School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Queen's University Belfast