Rob Saunders
Senior Software Engineer at Nomura Securities
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRob Saunders is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with over fifteen years building high-performance financial systems for major investment firms. He specializes in C#, .NET, multi-threading and performance tuning, having delivered dramatic runtime improvements (e.g., cutting processes from hours to minutes) across trading, reconciliation, and data-feed pipelines. Comfortable across the full stack and n-tier architectures, Rob has implemented regulatory and product changes as well as low-latency services and Excel add-ins used by quants and traders. His background blends an MSc in Software Engineering with a Certificate in Quantitative Finance and a BA in Cognitive Science, giving him both technical depth and a user-centered perspective on complex problems. Pragmatic and metrics-driven, he excels at turning algorithm and database bottlenecks into measurable throughput and latency gains.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of OxfordCertificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) at FitchLearning LondonBA, Cognitive Science, BA, Cognitive Science at University of VirginiaGithub contributions (4)
NerdyWithData/WorkoutWednesday-PowerBI
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 46 pushes in 9 months
NerdyWithData/WorkoutWednesday-Tableau
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:35 pushes in 9 months
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