Neo4j Ambassador
June, 2016
Community ambassador for Neo4j Graph Database technology
Cassandra Summit
December, 2014
Presentation on Enterprise use of Cassandra for Time Series
Roy Bailey
Technical Manager & Software Engineer
Hello, my name is Roy Bailey!
“ Software Engineering requires logic for robustness, creativity for problem solving, adaptability for continuous learning. That's why it's one of the most demanding yet rewarding jobs in the world! ”
User Centric
Very client focused and prefer talking directly with customers. Always delivering pragmatic commercial solutions based on constraints.
Quality Coding
Lead by example, hands on coding, working alongside existing teams to ensure knowledge sharing, coaching, and best outcome.
Simple Solutions
Over two decades of experience designing solutions. Good software should reduce complexity.
Responsive
Agile delivery with a responsive collaborative approach to technical and delivery challenges.
I am a highly skilled Technical Manager & Software Engineer. My client and delivery focused approach brings clarity and simplicity to the biggest challenges. Ideally suited to roles involving full ownership of technical solutions. I enjoy deep technical and business challenges while remaining close to the day to day design, implementation, and customers. Always building successful software solutions and productive technical teams whether commercial products or large enterprise systems. Always self taught new business domains and new technologies. Always delivering!
“ What makes me unique is my ability to abstract complexity from all the people and technical dimensions into simple reliable solutions. ”
See my clients endorsements
Roy’s clear strategic vision is highly beneficial for both clients and team when working under time pressure.His real strengths are: team development, communication, strategic thinking and presentation skills.
Kamila Piorowska
Roy's able to inspire and manage complex teams, getting the best from vendors and internal membersto deliver strategic development projects on time and to budget.He manages his teams in a way that brings out the best in them, and is a great motivator and listener- able to think strategically whilst still ensuring the details are being covered.
Geoff Burne
Roy's engineering skills and interpersonal skill are very strong and this is a rare combination.As well as working for us as a consultant Roy was hired as a direct employee and built a team around him in the UK.Roy demonstrated good leadership skills and a knack for hiring a talented and motivated team.
Jeff Wells
I just met Roy at Neo Technology's Graph Connect conference in SFO. Roy strikes me as a highly competent professional with wide range of interests. My company is addressing a complex space in what we are attempting to do. Roy rapidly grasped what we're doing and asked many insightful, probing questions.
Randal Fischer
Described as having a servant leadership style I create highly motivated and high performing engineering teams.
"Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviour."
To be successful today you need to build an inclusive and supportive engineering culture. A culture that encourages the best ideas to win, not politics or titles. This is where my many years of technical and commercial experience excels, providing relationship management between business and engineering and ensuring collaboration drives shared success.
UK Engineering Office Management
(SigFig, 15 people)
Setup and running of UK Engineering Office for San Fransisco Technology company.
Technical Delivery Management
(UBS, 20-80 people)
Mix of onshore/offshore, permanent and consultants, and management of large scale cross functional solutions, reporting to MD level business and IT.
Business Stakeholder Management
(LCH.Clearnet & HSBC)
Technical lead roles for teams of 8-15 people, including management of high achieving academics for building mathematical risk calculation libraries and high calibre consultants.
UK Engineering Office Management
(BRIDGE)
Setup, recruitment and running of UK Engineering Office for North American company after successful consultancy project
User Interface and Data Visualization
(UBS, BRIDGE)
From early UI development of real-time financial applications (charting, tickers) through to modern responsive HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Node solutions
Middleware and Micro Services
(UBS)
RESTful and WebSocket services, and involvement in hundreds of micro services across 7 Data Centres supporting award winning eCommerce platform for millions of users
NoSQL and Database
(UBS)
Access Control solution built with Neo4j Graph Database. Time Series and Document storage built with Cassandra. Caching solutions with Redis. Evaluations of many other NoSQL products. And plenty of Oracle experience.
Investment Banking
(UBS / HSBC / LCH.ClearNet)
Multi-Asset Class Instrument and Price mastering and distribution. Equity Market Risk with exposure to front office risk and VaR engine. FX curve generation engine derived from time-series data.
Risk
(UBS / LCH.Clearnet)
Risk processing workflow engines including hierarchical dependencies of different calculation libraries such as Initial Margin, Delivery Margin, Span, NPV
Financial Information Vendors
(BRIDGE - now part of Reuters)
Designed and built full financial workstation with market watch lists, tickers, level 2 and market maker screens, charting and news feeds
More than just a technologist...
My talents don't just cover hands-on software engineering. Much of my career has included leading teams, metoring and coaching others, learning new domains to shape successful deliveries.
Management & PeopleExceptional
Technical SolutionsExcellent
Analysis & DesignExcellent
Financial Markets & Multi-Asset ClassesStrong
Activities in the community
Most Significant Employment
- Bridge, HSBC, LCH1994-2006Engineering Lead Roles
- UBS2006-2018Various Software Engineering Leadership Roles
- SigFig, PEI Media2018-2020(Contract) Head of Engineering Roles
Career History
2019-2020
2018-2019
2016-2017
UBS Wealth Management - SmartWealth
Solutions Architect
Technical management of UBS SmartWealth platform, with full stack oversight. Technical Leadership covering Java8 SpringBoot micro-service architecture and React/Redux responsive HTML UI.
2012-2016
UBS Investment Bank - NEO
eCommerce Delivery Manager
Technical management of UBS NEO eCommerce platform, with full stack oversight. Technical Leadership with Cassandra, Neo4J, Redis, RESTful solutions for Charting, Analytics, Entitlements, Onboarding tools. Node APIs and modern mobile friendly HTML5/CSS/JavaScript using a mix of Knockout, D3 and React frameworks.
2010-2012
UBS Investment Bank - DataIT
Technical Lead - Reference & Pricing Distribution Hub
All aspects of day-to-day management of four applications including End-Of-Day Pricing and Reference Data Distribution Hub; covering both mastering and distribution solutions, servicing a broad range of consumers across the Investment Bank. Market Data Architect responsible for engineering of multi-source pricing data-warehouse and distribution solution (Bloomberg, Reuters, Exchange feeds), end-of-day and time-series. Design of highly concurrent rules engine to allow pricing vendor priority selection. Reference Data Distribution Architect responsible for cross asset class data coverage and strategic architecture design (GemFire caching).
2006-2010
UBS Investment Bank - Market Risk
Technical Lead - Equity Market Risk Data Sourcing & Reporting
All aspects of day-to-day management of SOx compliant Equities Data Sourcing application, taking position, risk measures and market data from Front Office, calculating and aggregating for VAR engine. Stakeholder management and technical delivery ownership. Global rollout, vanilla cash/derivatives and exotic structured products. Front- to-Back management of Equities data delivery.
2004-2006
LCH.Clearnet
Technical Lead - Risk Management Calculation Engine
Architecture, design and implementation of the Risk Management system; J2EE Technical Design Authority Member; UML Analysis & Design modelling; Risk Management infrastructure design & implementation. Implementation of highly concurrent workflow system using JMS. Six risk calculations (e.g. Net-Present-Value/Span and others)
2002-2004
HSBC
Technical Lead - FX Curve Generation Engine
Architecture, design and implementation of a Market Data and FX Curve generation system. Defined architectural policies; System Infrastructure libraries (inc. DAO, temporal data patterns, web-tier User Interface).
1994-2002
BRIDGE Information Systems
Head of UK Engineering
Full-life cycle of numerous products including the core corporate product 'BridgeStation', a full Financial Market Data Workstation showing realtime quotes, news and charting. Numerous front-end products (inc. desktop and web based) involving design and implementation of front-end frameworks, caching layers for realtime multi-threaded multi-source market data, back-end toolkits with public APIs and network processing. Patented market-maker data-visualisation innovation. Setup and management of European Development office and team.
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contact info
- roybaileybiz (gmail)
- London, UK
- +44 7710 379914