James Watson

James Watson's most recent work experience was as the Head of Platform Engineering at Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd, starting in November 2015. James was responsible for running the platform team and building the Hydra Platform, which is an accelerator for high-performance trading systems. Prior to that, they worked at TT International from September 2010 to October 2015 as a C# Developer/Analyst. At TT International, they built a real-time P&L monitoring system and various applications for front, middle, and back office functions. Before that, they worked as a C# Developer at Gordian Knot from July 2009 to September 2010, where they used skills such as Sybase T-SQL, Perl and Bash scripting, and C#/.Net. James'searliest work experience was as a Web Application Developer at Alberon, where they built and maintained websites and led clients through system specification and design from 2004 to 2009.

James Watson earned their 1st BEng in Computer Science from the University of York, where they studied from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, they attended Magdalen College School in Oxford, but no specific degree or field of study is mentioned. In 2014, they obtained the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Institute.