Benjamin Tattersley

Employment

• QuantCo

  • December 2023 -
  • Senior Software Engineer
    • Leading an engineering team for a major client project. Designing software and processes to dramatically improve collaboration between engineers and quants
    • Transformed model development and solution deployment processes to be safer, reduce time to market, and give better feedback to quants from production. Working at all levels of the stack to build effective tools for the team and client
    • Mentoring, project management and communication across teams and with clients
    • Active interviewer, focussed on hiring not just individuals with technical talent, but good culture fit and communication skills that are key to the success of the business

• Jump Trading

  • July 2019 - November 2023
  • Software Engineer

• Two Sigma IQ

  • December 2017 - July 2019
  • Software Engineer
    • Working in a small agile team, built a key part of the vendor data acquisition system to gather data about entities contained in insurance policies
    • Lead the work on offline and online deployment of machine learning models as part of the insurance data processing pipeline
    • Developed a simple, opinionated ETL job framework in Python designed to support easy testing for rapid prototyping and development of new data processing jobs, including applications of spark and machine learning models
    • Java, Kotlin, Python, Docker, AWS
    • Member of the interview team

• Gambit Research

  • 25 July 2016 - 17 November 2017
  • Software Engineer
    • Software Developer for the client-facing MollyBet professional sports betting platform
    • Developed highly praised and first-to-market new features for MollyBet
    • Aggregation of realtime and historical sports betting data to produce a highly polished new mobile interface for the platform
    • Lead developer of multiple internal web tools for system monitoring, including rapid development of new tools and rewriting legacy applications.
    • Developed microservices with Python and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes/Ansible
    • Experience with managing Linux systems
    • Valued member of the recruitment and interview team

• Code Kingdoms

  • 1 July - 28 August 2015
  • Systems and UX Engineer, Microbit Lead
    • Developing a coding editor for millions of school children
    • Presenting to project partners

• VML London

  • 5 August - 27 September 2013 & 14 July - 29 August 2014
  • Working in a front-end development team on projects for high profile clients such as The Premier League and Colgate
  • Lead front-end developer on projects for Premier Inn, Nestle and a new internet bank

Education

Durham University: Computer Science BSc - 1st Class With Honours

Dissertation: Application of MapReduce for Distributed Image Processing

• Developed a system to make parallel computation possible across a variety of platforms with zero code changes needed, including local multicore, remote distributed and via volunteer computation in the browser