Tim Williams
Team Lead - Contract Languages at Bloomberg LP
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Williams is a senior software engineer and team lead specializing in contract languages, distributed systems and DSLs, with over 13 years of experience in financial markets built on a PhD in Physics. He leads Contract Languages at Bloomberg after senior quant and Haskell-focused quant developer roles at Standard Chartered, Barclays and Deutsche Bank, bringing deep expertise in pricing, risk systems and functional programming. Tim combines research-grade analytical rigour with practical production experience, having moved from computational physics to architecting scalable trading and pricing platforms. He is comfortable in both hands-on engineering and technical leadership, mentoring teams to apply functional techniques to real-world, low-latency problems. Based in East Hampshire, he blends a strong academic background with a track record of shipping robust financial software across major global institutions. An ex-physicist by training, he often applies simulation and modeling instincts to design expressive domain-specific languages for complex financial contracts.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (27)
row10
nix10
expressions10
nixos10
linux10
nixpkgs10
extensible9
programming-language7
backup7
hakyll7
scalable6
mws6
on-the-fly5
hackage5
jekyll4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
willtim/nixpkgs
May 2015 - Apr 2019
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 11 months
nixosnix-packages
willtim/nixos
Apr 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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