Nick Stanford
Software Engineer at Jain Global
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Stanford is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of formal experience and a long career in finance and consulting spanning roles at Credit Suisse, G-Research, Balyasny Asset Management and now Jain Global. He blends hands-on engineering with product ownership and team leadership, delivering complex, risk-sensitive systems for quantitative and trading environments. His background in theoretical particle physics and massively parallel computing (PhD, University of Edinburgh) gives him a strong foundation in numerical methods and high-performance architectures. Nick is comfortable across the stack and throughout the software lifecycle, translating rigorous academic thinking into pragmatic, production-grade solutions. Having repeatedly stepped between consultancy and in-house teams, he brings both client-facing pragmatism and deep institutional knowledge of financial systems. Based in Colchester, UK, he combines analytical depth with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable software under tight regulatory and performance constraints.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Theoretical Particle Physics Massively Parallel Computing, PhD Theoretical Particle Physics Massively Parallel Computing at The University of EdinburghBSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Leeds
Github Skills (6)
stream-reader10
system-text-json9
stream8
stackoverflow8
reader7
json6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
evil-dr-nick/utf8jsonstreamreader
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
A stream reader for System.Text.Json based on a stackoverflow question, with bugfixes.
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
questionstackoverflowjson-textstream-readerbugfixes
evil-dr-nick/edn-generic-ui
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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