Christopher Pollock Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Working primarily as a C++ developer on Alpha Vista’s proprietary analysis and trading software. Made many enhancements and bug fixes. Did extensive refactoring to reduce code duplication, make it easier to maintain, and improve error handling and performance. Modernized the code, for example by replacing almost all uses of new with make_unique or.

Sydney, Australia

Was one of the developers of a Java system called nxFunding, which calculated the best way to hedge synthetic orders.Key developer on a project to enhance the order validation logic in a system called Atlas, to allow it to support multiple methods of hedging synthetic orders. I worked on both the design and implementation. Atlas was written in GC-free.

Sydney, Australia

Worked as a developer on the Jira Service Desk application, programming in Java on the back end, and JavaScript on the front end.

Sydney, Australia

Briefly returned to my former employer as a contractor. Worked on the middle office system, making the necessary modifications to commission handling for the MiFID II regulation changes.

Sydney, Australia

• This was a continuation of my role with Merrill Lynch in Tokyo. I worked remotely with the Tokyo team, as well as developers in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Most of my projects during this period involved the same suite of.
• Added a mechanism to validate long sell orders against positions in our position keeping system
• Enhanced the code (originally designed for use in Japan) to support multiple countries. Our trading system was subsequently released in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
• Improved the socket-based interprocess communication protocol to improve throughput on high-latency networks
• Added support for mass quotes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s TDEX+ system
• Added support for multi-leg instruments

Tokyo, Japan

• Developed a server-side application to enable a vendor-supplied trading system called Orc to trade on the Japanese markets. This connected Orc to Merrill Lynch’s databases, market data feeds, and exchange gateway. It.
• Optimized and enhanced position keeping system
• Added support for futures, options, and convertible bonds
• Added multi-currency support
• Added mechanisms to distribute real time market data to multiple applications from a single subscriber, using sockets or memory-mapped files
• Optimized and enhanced UI code

Tokyo, Japan

Enhanced, debugged, and supported a proprietary equity trading system called BETS (Barings Exchange Trading System), which had been developed before I arrived. It consisted of six separate executables running on SunOS, written in C++ using a complex object-oriented design. The Teknekron Information Bus (TIB) was used to transfer information between the.

Woy Woy, NSW, Australia

Developed training software for Windows applications (WordPerfect, Microsoft Excel, Lotus 123, etc.) in C++ using a proprietary framework developed by Asylum Productions.Member of the team that developed a graphical adventure game called DogDay, which was released in 1997. This game was written in C++ under Windows 95 using the Microsoft DirectX and Video.

Master Of Information Technology, Information Technology, Hd

Master of Information Technology, with specialisations in artificial intelligence and database systems. Weighted average mark of 87.438..

Associate Diploma In Business (Commercial Data Processing), Computer Software Development, Credit

The main areas of study were software development in COBOL and C, systems analysis, operating systems, and computing theory.