Tom Taylor
Co-Head Of Front-Office Engineering at Man Group
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Taylor is a seasoned technology leader with 10 years of engineering experience and a decade-plus career across quantitative trading firms, now serving as Co-Head of Front-Office Engineering at Man Group in Boston. He has led alpha technology and equities engineering teams at Man Numeric and AHL, bridging algorithmic research and production-grade systems to deliver low-latency, reliable trading infrastructure. A hands-on manager who rose from algorithmic developer to partner-level roles, he combines deep domain knowledge in quant strategies with practical delivery and operational rigor. Tom also contributes to high-performance open-source tooling for time-series and tick data—improving data integrity tests in the widely used arctic datastore—highlighting attention to correctness in critical data pipelines. Known for stabilizing complex systems and improving test automation, he brings both leadership and code-level credibility to front-office technology transformation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (9)
pytest10
arctic10
python10
testing10
databases9
database9
timeseries-database9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
man-group/arctic
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
High performance datastore for time series and tick data
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the `arctic` datastore. Their commits added tests for checksum functionalities, addressing both standard strings and handling unicode and binary data. They also fixed a test for Python 3.0 compatibility. The user's work focused on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the data integrity checks within the system.
pythonticktickstoretick-dataarctic
TomTaylorLondon/tagtest
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 1 day
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