Adam Szmigin
Senior Software Engineer at G-Research
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Szmigin is a Senior Software Engineer and architect based in London with 11 years of experience building low-latency, production-grade systems across finance and crypto. He has led engineering teams and divisions—from bootstrapping a fund’s entire infrastructure and team to heading Markets Engineering at a crypto startup—and now delivers sophisticated platforms at G-Research. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and strategic technical leader, he has driven real-time risk engines, FRTB analytics, prime brokerage systems and multi-exchange connectivity for trading. An active contributor to open-source (notably back-end improvements to the Mixxx DJ project), he blends rigorous academic grounding (First Class Computer Science, Oxford) with a knack for pragmatic refactors that simplify complex systems. Colleagues describe him as a confident speaker and natural leader who thrives where architecture, performance and regulated compliance intersect.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
audio10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
data-integration9
sql-database9
cmake9
databases9
midi8
midi-instrument8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mixxxdj/mixxx
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 35 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality and integration of the Mixxx DJ software. They refactored the code to use `TrackRef` and `TrackFile` objects, making them qHash-able. Significant contributions included adding a dependency on the `libdjinterop` external project and implementing an initial version of the Engine Prime export feature. The user also worked on database interactions and refactored code to use blocking queued connections.
everythingwindowshidmidilinux
xsco/libdjinterop
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
C++ library for access to DJ record libraries
Contributions:13 reviews, 202 commits, 178 PRs in 5 years 3 months
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