Neil Slinger
Head Of Core Engineering at Citadel
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Slinger is a senior technology leader and Head of Core Engineering based in London with nine years of experience in senior engineering roles across Citadel and J.P. Morgan, specialising in building resilient platforms for trading, pricing, risk and analytics in regulated financial environments. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering chops—evidenced by contributions to FINOS' Perspective project improving large/streaming data aggregation and robustness—with proven ability to align senior stakeholders and shape firm-wide engineering strategy. Neil has modernised core platforms used by traders, quants and developers, leading global teams across research platforms, UI/toolkits, SRE and developer experience. Known for balancing risk-aware architecture with rapid delivery, he also brings board-level perspective from his FINOS vice-chair role and an Oxford engineering background.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering and Computer Science (MEng) Engineering Computer Science Maths, Engineering and Computer Science (MEng) Engineering Computer Science Maths at University of Oxford
English
Github Skills (10)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
webassembly10
analytics10
python9
data-structures8
testing8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
perspective-dev/perspective
May 2018 - Jan 2019
A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Neil contributed to the `perspective` repository by implementing features related to data aggregation, including "first by index" and "last by index" functionalities. They refactored and improved existing aggregate logic, addressing issues with weighted mean calculations. Additionally, the user added support for clearing cells and refined the handling of null and missing values within the data processing pipeline, enhancing the overall robustness of the data visualization component. Furthermore, tests have been added and modified.
data-visualizationwebassemblyreal-timeanalyticsjavascript
neilslinger/jpmorganchase.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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