Summary
Max Morant is a Site Reliability Engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and operating low-latency, high-availability systems in quantitative trading and commodities at Citadel and Goldman Sachs. He progressed from support specialist and team lead roles on a systematic market making desk to SRE leadership, blending deep operational expertise with domain knowledge of financial markets. Based in London, he combines a Computer Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania with interdisciplinary studies in History, Political Science, and Finance, which informs a pragmatic approach to complex, regulated environments. Early internships in the U.S. Senate and House gave him uncommon exposure to policy and stakeholder management for an engineer, strengthening his communication with non-technical partners. Known for making reliability measurable and repeatable, he focuses on scalable automation and resilient platform design that enable fast, data-driven trading decisions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Inside an Investment Bank (Sponsored by Bank of America) Finance General, Inside an Investment Bank (Sponsored by Bank of America) Finance General at OpenDoor
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
French