Oliver Lea
Quantitative Technology Director
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Lea is a quantitative developer based in London with 12 years' experience building low-latency, research-driven trading infrastructure across leading prop firms and hedge funds. He holds a first-class MSc in Computer Science from the University of York and has applied functional and multi-paradigm languages—including Haskell, Java, C#, Python, and SQL—to production research technology stacks at XTX, Marshall Wace and now Qube. Oliver combines a research mindset with pragmatic engineering: designing robust data pipelines and performance-critical systems that support quantitative researchers. A pattern-seeking developer, he brings deep familiarity with both algorithmic concerns and software ergonomics, often translating research prototypes into maintainable, high-throughput services.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at University of York
English
Github Skills (2)
kafka2
kafka-topic2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oliverlea/HAPR-LPC1768
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:246 commits in 1 year 2 months
oliverlea/advent-of-code-2021
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 months
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