Roger Orr
Quant Developer at ACCU
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoger Orr is a seasoned Quant Developer and contract programmer with over three decades of hands-on experience delivering high-performance C++ and multi-language solutions for leading financial institutions. Currently at HSBC and running his own consultancy OR/2, he has a strong track record across banks and proprietary firms including G-Research, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Nomura, tackling low-latency, risk and pricing systems. He represents the UK on ISO C++ standards, chairs the BSI C++ panel and brings rare standards-level expertise to production engineering and toolchains. An Oxford mathematician, he blends rigorous mathematical thinking with pragmatic engineering to optimize memory and CPU-constrained systems. Active in the ACCU community as Publications Officer and conference committee member, he also runs code critique competitions and writes on software quality. Colleagues rely on him for deep C++ knowledge, practical refactoring of legacy systems, and steady delivery in high-stakes trading environments.
10 years of coding experience
1st, Mathematics, 1st, Mathematics at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (97)
websocket10
winapi10
cpp10
sftp10
ftp10
ftps10
ldap10
reflection10
strace10
receiver10
scp10
encoder-decoder10
external10
curl10
api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rogerorr/NtTrace
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
An strace-like program for the Windows 'native' API
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 9 months
apiwindowsstracewinapinative-api
rogerorr/articles
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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