Luke Jones
MSc (Dist), CSM
Software engineer and architect. Management experience. Certified Scrum Master.
20+ years experience.
London, United Kingdom
(GitHub: MathematicusLucian)
Education: Master's in Computer Science. University of Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme. Studying for the CFA.
Experience: Rich problem-solving/systemising ability, and a background in highly-regulated prop-trading/ financial services, as a principal engineer to several teams (60+ devs; on-site, remote, offshore.) Familiar with ESG, DevOps, QA automation, AWS/Azure, DevEx, diversity, Six Sigma, and Agile (Certified Scrum Master.) Focuses on value to business, security, and code reusability (microservices, micro-frontends, OOP, design patterns.)
Skills: AI/Machine Learning, C#, C++, Cloud/Infrastructure, Databases, DevOps & CI/CD, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, QA, SDLC
Interests: AI models, neuroscience, and checking the value of cryptocurrency investments. I'm somewhere in a corner of these rainy isles, drinking lethal quantities of coffee, while hacking up a Raspberry Pi, wishing Bletchley Park was my office, redesigning workflows, or experimenting with Lora LLM AI models. Otherwise, catching up on the work of Martin Fowler, David Farley, Bob Martin, Colin Furze, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hannah Fry, al-Khwarizmi, Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, and Tommy Flowers.
API construction
- Java, JVM, Spring Boot
- C#, ASP, .Net, Infragistics
- Python (with FastAPI, FlaskAPI, etc.)
- NodeJs
- Databases: Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CouchDB, SQL, NoSQL
- Testing: PyTest, NUnit, etc.
AI experience
Ollama,
HuggingFace,
Microsoft Intelligence tools,
BART,
GPT, etc..
UI development
- JavaScript, TypeScript,
- Frameworks: Angular, React, Vue (2, and 3),
- Bundlers: Vite, NPM, Bun,
- Styling: TailwindCSS,
- State Management: Tanstack Query, NgRx, Redux,
- Components: Ag-Grid, Shadcn/ui, Material, DaisyUI,
- Microfrontends: Module Federation, SingleSpa,
- APIs: websockets, gRPC,
- Testing: Jasmine, Jest, Cypress, Selenium,
Quant/AlgoTrading, Data Science
Python, C++,
Libraries: Pandas, Numpy, etc..
Recent projects
The random generator services aim to generate random numbers based on the given probabilities. The probabilities are used to determine the likelihood
Codebases
My Github repo
Blog posts
AI, AlgoTrading, Web UI, and API posts and projects in Java, C#, Python, and JavaScript, featuring websockets, gRPC, TypeScript, and Postgres.
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