Simon Padbury is a quantitative analytics professional with 11 years' experience at the intersection of capital markets and emerging carbon markets, currently working at HSBC. He has held senior roles including Chief Risk Officer and CTO, and led international rates automated trading at MUFG, demonstrating deep expertise in interest rate derivatives and trading systems. Trained as an aerospace and mechanical engineer, he combines rigorous analytical foundations with practical engineering discipline to build reliable, production-grade quant systems. Alongside finance roles he maintains a hands-on front-end practice—crafting custom theming, static sites and style libraries—which reflects a broad toolkit from low-level quant models to customer-facing UI. Based in Marlow, UK, he has a track record of translating complex risk and trading requirements into pragmatic technical solutions across startups and global banks. An understudied strength is his ability to bridge product, risk and engineering teams, turning regulatory and market complexity into operational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of the West of England
Master's degree, Aerospace Engineering, Master's degree, Aerospace Engineering at University of Bath
SCSS/JS website component library. Built on its own Gulp-based static site generator.
Contributions:95 PRs, 237 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 4 months
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