Nick Wells
Director at Barclays Capital
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Wells is a senior technical architect and Director with over two decades of finance software experience, currently leading the architecture of Barclays' BARX FX e‑commerce platform. He transitioned from C++ server-side development to owning both server and GUI design, driving features in pricing, risk management and the market‑impacting PowerFill+ order processing system. Under his technical leadership BARX scaled from a few hundred to several thousand users and became a core strategic system for the bank. Experienced in low‑latency systems and FX e‑commerce, he combines hands‑on engineering with team hiring and process design. Based in London, he brings a rare blend of deep quantitative systems work (including early VaR engine development) and pragmatic product collaboration with the business.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Leeds
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
linux9
bash9
pipe9
golang9
cli9
go8
programming-language8
shell6
php6
openssl6
sed6
interpreter6
grep6
supervisord6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nickwells/utilities
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
miscellaneous useful commands, including 'gosh' the Go scripting tool
Contributions:1 review, 328 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 6 months
golangscriptingmiscellaneousgoshuseful-commands
nickwells/cli.mod
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch, 49 tags in 5 years 5 months
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