Robert Steward
App Development Tech Lead - Commodities Market Data
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Steward is an experienced software engineering leader and App Development Tech Lead focused on front-office commodities market data at Citi, with two decades of professional experience and deep expertise in C#/.NET. He has a proven track record delivering complex client/server and UI-rich applications on schedule across finance and scientific domains, and has led Agile/SCRUM and remote teams while championing prototyping, CI and unit testing. His technical breadth spans databases (MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle), languages (C#, Java, C/C++), web and desktop UI frameworks, and robust server-side architectures. Unusually for a senior finance technologist, he brings research pedigree—a PhD in biochemistry/biophysics and postdoc experience—giving him strong analytical rigour and domain versatility. As a former project manager and PMI-certified practitioner, he combines hands-on development with end-to-end delivery skills, routinely managing multiple concurrent projects to budget and schedule. Based in England, he is comfortable translating complex business requirements into pragmatic, testable software solutions for high-stakes environments.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology at University of CambridgeMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of LondonBSc Biochemistry & Pharmacology, BSc Biochemistry & Pharmacology at King's College London
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Github Skills (10)
atlas10
gene-expression10
ontology-mapping7
owl7
css6
graphite6
invisible-recaptcha6
grafana6
code-snippets6
base646
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
gxa/gxa
Jul 2010 - Jun 2014
Gene Expression Atlas
Contributions:2077 commits in 3 years 11 months
gene-expressiongeneatlas
ebi-gene-expression-group/atlas
Jan 2013 - Nov 2017
Expression Atlas
Contributions:427 commits, 121 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
atlas
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