Tim Nugent
DeFi Trading Lead at GSR
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Nugent is a DeFi trading lead based in London with 11 years of experience blending quantitative research, software engineering, and crypto markets expertise. He currently heads DeFi trading at GSR, covering market making, prop trading, derivatives and MEV, after progressing from engineering into a leadership role. His background spans academic machine learning and bioinformatics (PhD, UCL) through industry research at Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv and hands-on trading quant work, giving him deep experience in algorithms, data-driven models and production systems. An active developer, he led backend work on the YarnSpinner interactive dialogue tool—building parsers and language features—highlighting his knack for language design and tooling as well as low-level implementation. Known for translating complex research into practical trading and software solutions, he combines rigorous scientific training with pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons.) Pharmacology, BSc (Hons.) Pharmacology at University of BristolMaster of Research (MRes) Bioinformatics, Master of Research (MRes) Bioinformatics at Birkbeck, University of LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (6)
lexical-analysis10
language-design10
text-parsing10
parsing10
lex10
antlr10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
YarnSpinnerTool/YarnSpinner
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 180 commits, 19 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of the Yarn Spinner tool, focusing on its internal language and parsing capabilities. Their work included adding support for the modulo operator, along with creating the initial ANTLR grammar and testing infrastructure for the project. They also added operator aliases. Additionally, the user modified the code to address string handling.
dialogue-managergamegodotdialogue-systemsunity
McJones/BagBot
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
The bot for my private Discord Server. Probably not useful to you, but who knows it might be.
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botdiscord-server
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