Max Wood
Technology Associate
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMax Wood is a London-based Technology Associate with eight years of hands-on software engineering experience, combining a first-class Computer Science degree from the University of Bath with a track record of modernising trading systems at Morgan Stanley. He led an intern team to build a winning FX trading algorithm and rebuilt legacy trading and documentation platforms, delivering measurable productivity gains (including >5x trader productivity and 6x faster docs load times). Equally comfortable across the full stack and web development, he has shipped ed-tech and commercial platforms and improved developer experience for international teams. A lifelong tinkerer who built his first PC as a kid, Max pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with an intrapreneurial mindset to solve real-world problems and drive lasting operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of BathA-Levels Mathematics Further Mathematics Physics and Computer Science, A-Levels Mathematics Further Mathematics Physics and Computer Science at The King's School Chester
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Github Skills (9)
code-server9
edtech7
open-source7
nodejs7
python6
expression-trees6
mysql5
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxemileffort/gap-trader
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:121 commits, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
maxemileffort/tailorjd_frontend
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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