# Miles Watson

> SWE @ Jump Trading | Cambridge CS Grad

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/mileswatson

Hi! I'm a CS graduate of the University of Cambridge interested in systems programming and the world of high frequency trading.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Jump Trading Group
Jan 2024 – Present | City Of London, England, United Kingdom

### Software Engineering Intern @ Jump Trading Group
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Received and accepted a return offer.

### Software Development Intern @ Ocado Technology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom
• Worked as a core member of the PLC Services team to develop tooling and CICD pipelines for robots in Ocado's highly-automated warehouses, contributing to daily standups, design meetings, code reviews, and retrospectives
• Developed new tools to validate the correctness and safety of PLC programs, and optimised existing ones to improve developer experience & reduce pipeline runtime
• Designed and built an application to allow developers to efficiently resolve merge conflicts in complex binary files, removing a critical bottleneck in productivity for over 80 developers
• Created a web-based frontend for the team's flagship product (completing work before initial estimates), secured endpoints with OIDC authentication, and contributed ideas towards the design of the backend architecture

### Software Engineer @ Neuron Tech Limited
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
• Reverse-engineered checkout & payment flows of popular E-commerce sites + payment providers, improving the product's marketable feature set and reducing failed checkouts due to edge-cases
• Designed and built a centralized stock-monitoring service with Rust, which indirectly reduced the TCO of the product for customers and became responsible for coordinating over $1.5m of annual purchases
• Created a monitoring dashboard for the aforementioned service, allowing the company to quickly diagnose issues and respond by changing configuration, decreasing common incident response time from 25 minutes to 30 seconds

### Software Dev. & Technical Author @ Kevin Walters Consulting Ltd
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote

### Work Experience @ Foregenix Ltd
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Marlborough, England, United Kingdom


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Cambridge

### A Levels
St. John’s Marlborough Sixth Form

### GCSEs
St. John’s Marlborough


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/watsonmiles
- Website: https://github.com/mileswatson
- Website: https://dev.to/mileswatson
- Website: https://twitter.com/miles__watson

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Last updated: 2026-04-05