Summary
Ryan Sparks is a seasoned kdb+/q developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building low-latency trading and surveillance systems across major financial centers. He has delivered production systems for equities, FX, rates and commodities at firms including Citadel, ITG, UBS, JP Morgan and Barclays, and built multi-market surveillance tooling for Australia’s regulator. Based in New York, he combines deep applied-mathematics training with pragmatic systems engineering to optimize high-throughput data pipelines and real-time analytics. His career blends long-term in-house roles with consulting at First Derivatives, giving him both breadth across asset classes and depth in kdb+ performance tuning. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex market requirements into auditable, high-performance solutions that run in demanding trading environments.
9 years of coding experience
The University of Sydney