Sam Stanford

Experience

Jane Street

May 2024 – Present

Production Engineer

  • Ensure reliability and uptime of production systems for market connectivity
  • Support risk checking and high-volume order flow infrastructure
  • Develop and maintain web-based internal tooling for users across the firm

Bloomberg L.P.

Jun 2022 – May 2024

Software Engineer

  • Reliability engineer focused on developer experience & software supply-chain security
  • Maintain 3-nines planned uptime for critical development services, including on-call duties
  • Reduced maintenance workflows with automation by up to 6.5×
  • Lead small teams, taking projects from inception to production

MathWorks

May – Sept 2021

Software Developer Intern

  • Developed Simulink diff workflow improvements on the Comparison Tools team
  • Reduced typical diff workflows by 2–3 minutes via microservice & UI integrations

Ecoeats

May 2020 – Jun 2021

Software Engineer

  • Part-time full-stack engineer for an eco-friendly food-delivery startup
  • Built customer & staff applications with TypeScript, React, and Postgres

Bluestone98

May – Sept 2019

Web Developer

  • Developed, deployed & maintained bespoke websites for a variety of clients

Projects

Open-Source Ingestion System

Bloomberg, 2023–2024

Python, Postgres, TypeScript

  • Developed an interface to open-source repositories to improve supply-chain security
  • Led a small team from project inception to production deployment
  • System has successfully prevented hundreds of open-source supply-chain attacks

Code-Search Service Overhaul

Bloomberg, 2023–2024

Shell, Perl, Java, Monitoring tools

  • Led redesign of a legacy internal OpenGrok service, fixing bugs & reducing overhead
  • Introduced availability, latency & system-health monitoring with industry-standard tooling
  • Re-architected and upgraded the system, achieving a 75%+ increase in efficiency

Education

University of St Andrews

2017 – 2022

MSci Computer Science

Skills

Fluent

  • Python
  • TypeScript & JavaScript
  • React
  • SQL
  • HTML & CSS
  • Shell

Skilled

  • Java
  • Go

Familiar

  • C / C++
  • PHP