FINLAY O'NEILL

NatWest

Contract role focused on enhancing the centralised Monte-Carlo modelling framework.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Contract role in the Investment Risk team, leading development of a full-stack risk monitoring platform alongside the firm's migration to Snowflake. Built the FastAPI backend, Dash front end and overnight data pipeline, deployed to EKS via a GitOps pipeline. Leading Python development standards across a globally distributed team.

Aberdeen Investments

Modelling & Quantitative Analytics, democratising data across the firm to support investment decision-making. Built pipelines, dashboards and bespoke tools. Rebuilt the in-house ESG scoring process, cutting runtime from three hours to six minutes. Introduced GitOps deployment to the team's Kubernetes analytics platform.

Aberdeen Investments

Quantitative Investment Solutions, enhancing portfolio analytics to understand performance drivers and risk factor exposure. Replaced a manual pre-trade process with an automated pipeline integrating position, FactSet and Style Analytics data with optimiser and simulation outputs.

Forecast Global

Consultancy across clients of varying size and sector — from building data pipelines for a FTSE 100 telecoms firm to classifying sales leads with machine learning models for a FinTech.

Aberdeen Investments

Aberdeen Investments

Baillie Gifford