Todd Hughes is a Senior Quantitative Developer and technical lead with 20+ years of experience building distributed, low-latency systems for financial services, currently architecting production analytics at the London Stock Exchange Group. He translates sophisticated quantitative research into scalable cloud-native platformsโdesigning sub-50ms APIs, ETL pipelines for 20TB+ datasets, and ML workflows that cut processing times by over 60%. As a founder and former CTO, he has taken AI-augmented products from concept to production, including an agentic multi-agent LlamaIndex RAG system for automated financial statement analysis. Todd blends deep engineering chops across Python, C#, PySpark, AWS and Snowflake with product instincts from startup leadership, and holds professional ML/AI credentials from MIT and cloud certifications. A former professional touring drummer, he brings an atypical creative discipline and team-first leadership style to high-stakes engineering and architecture.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Professional Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Todd Hughes - Senior Quantitative Developer & Technical Lead