Thomas Smyth
AVP Senior Software Development Engineer at BestX
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Smyth is an AVP Senior Software Development Engineer with 10 years' experience specialising in q/kdb+ for financial services, focused on large-scale data ingestion, normalization and low-latency delivery for quantitative teams. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles at AquaQ Analytics to senior and managerial positions at Version 1, Treliant and now BestX, building data integrity frameworks and automated ingestion pipelines for major US hedge funds and investment firms. Comfortable operating in fast-paced release cycles, he combines deep domain knowledge of time-series databases with practical engineering discipline in testing and analysis. Trained as a physicist at Queen's University Belfast, he brings a methodical, analytic approach to solving messy production data problems and improving data quality for downstream research and trading.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSci Physics, MSci Physics at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (30)
kdb10
financial9
financial-data9
terminology9
semantics9
workitem9
data-capture8
zeal8
bengali8
agda7
memgraph7
python7
philosophy6
barrage6
finance4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AquaqProdSupport1/TorQ-Finance-Starter-Pack
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Example data capture system, based on random financial data
Contributions:186 comments, 2 issues in 4 months
financialpythonfinancial-datadata-capturefintech
AquaQProdSupport2/TorQ-Finance-Starter-Pack
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:108 comments, 2 issues in 18 days
financialdata-capturepythonfinancial-data
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