Benjamin Tattersley

Employment

• QuantCo

  • December 2023 -
  • Software Engineer

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