About

Welcome to my personal project showcase and blog on adventures in programming.

I am a passionate software engineer with 20+ years experience, versed in development on Linux, Windows, Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes.

I specialise in data driven analytics for the financial investment management industry and I have a good understanding of buy-side performance analytics, regulatory compliance, ESG, risk and reporting.

After spending a number of years developing FMCG and retail systems, I moved into development of front, middle and back-office systems for the financial services industry. The most well-known products being:

• An investment management back and front-office system, Microgen AIMS.
• A regulatory and investment compliance system, StatPro Portfolio Control.
• The SalientQuants Portfolio Toolkit for hedge fund managers.
• A cloud based investment performance measurement system, Revolution Performance.

I have received several industry awards for technical innovation over the years.

I actively write code in Ruby, Python, Go, C#, R and Terraform. I have built software libraries, designed frameworks, development tools, CI, CD and DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, desktop, web and distributed cloud based applications, in a variety of programming languages and technology stacks.

I am a Open Source contributor; the most widely used being the Heroku Buildpack for R, which I actively maintain for a growing R data science community.

I enjoy learning and experimenting with new technologies and my personal interests include spending time with my family, playing guitar and electronic music production.

I am currently based in Surrey in the UK.

Have questions or want to get in touch? Feel free to drop me an email.

You can also connect with me professionally via LinkedIn or checkout my professional GitHub account.

Thanks for reading!

Chris Stefano