Reid Philpot
Senior Software Engineer at Citadel
Gravesham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolReid Philpot is a senior front-end engineer with over two decades of experience building data-rich, low-latency web applications for financial markets and other high-performance environments. Currently at Citadel, he has led UI and Fusion development at TP ICAP and driven real-time trading interfaces across GFI, Sporting Index and RBS, blending pragmatic architecture with production-focused delivery. He specializes in real-time HTML5/JavaScript front ends, WebSocket-based streaming, and scalable continuous-delivery practices that keep mission-critical systems responsive under heavy load. Known for owning end-to-end UI design and implementation, he pairs deep client-side expertise with a strong understanding of market data, pricing tools and trading workflows. Based in Gravesham, UK, he earned a BSc (Hons) in Computing from The Open University while progressing through hands-on roles since the late 1990s. An uncommon strength is his consistent work across both greenfield trading platforms and high-throughput legacy integrations, making him adept at modernizing complex financial UIs without disrupting live markets.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours) Computing, BSc (Honours) Computing at The Open University
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Github Skills (34)
javascript-tools9
grids9
data-management9
spreadsheet9
grid9
excel9
data-import9
datagrid9
angular-table8
handsontable8
datatable8
xlsx8
vue-table8
javascript7
vue7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
reidphilpot/spreadbet-client
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:64 commits in 7 months
reidphilpot/functional
May 2015 - Apr 2021
Useful functional utilities
Contributions:14 PRs, 31 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 11 months
curryfunctorfunctional-programmingfp-tsutilities
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