Polly Shaw
Senior Software Engineer at LMAX Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPolly Shaw is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems for finance and enterprise clients. Currently at LMAX Group she focuses on Java and low-latency exchange infrastructure, after leading critical national-infrastructure work at Vocalink/Mastercard where she combined hands-on coding with cross-team coordination. Her background spans technical leadership roles at Oliver Wyman, Tesco and the Houses of Parliament, with practical expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring, AWS, Kafka and Kubernetes. Polly pairs a strong theoretical foundation—a BA in Mathematics and postgraduate Computer Science from Cambridge and an MSc in Quantum Technologies from UCL—with pragmatic delivery skills like incident support and pipeline improvements. Colleagues value her as a generalist techie who moves comfortably between architecture, hands-on development and stakeholder-facing decisions. She’s known for quietly simplifying complex systems and making cross-team collaboration feel routine.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics at University of CambridgeUniversity College London
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Github Skills (57)
python10
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source-sdk10
gecko10
rest10
sdk10
firefox10
quantum-computing10
git-mirror10
mercurial10
qiskit10
mozilla10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pollyshaw/qiskit-terra
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and algorithms.
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
quantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsextendedsdk
pollyshaw/gRaPhiCview
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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