Simon Garland
Senior Software Developer Working On Risk Models at Legal & General
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Garland is a senior software developer and former finance technology leader with 19 years’ experience designing and delivering high-performance trading and risk systems for institutions including Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank. Now at Legal & General and previously CTO of boutique firms and startups, he blends hands‑on C# and Python algorithmic trading development with architectural leadership across front-to-back trading platforms. An experienced practitioner of Agile, SOLID, DevOps and TDD, he has repeatedly scaled teams and systems to meet dramatic business growth and operational deadlines. Self-employed as a trader, he builds proprietary algo strategies, bringing practical market-facing experience to risk model development. Based in London, he pairs deep capital markets domain knowledge with a track record of pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering and rapid delivery.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Redbridge College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
kdb10
syntax-highlighting10
java9
connection-pool9
customisation9
cpp9
partitioning9
tidb7
distributed-database6
webserver5
jdbc1
database1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
simongarland/Syntaxhighlighter-for-q
May 2014 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits in 7 years 6 months
simongarland/csvguess
Sep 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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