alt Hacker NewsCurious what your actual role was -- sounds very interesting! Project manager? Dev? Operations specialist? E.g. were you hired into this role, and what were the requisites?
Curious what your actual role was -- sounds very interesting! Project manager? Dev? Operations specialist? E.g. were you hired into this role, and what were the requisites?
I was what was called "Trade Desk".
Many firms have them and they are a hybrid of:
- DevOps (e.g. we help, or own, deployments to production)
- SRE (e.g. we own the dashboards that monitored trading and would manage outages etc)
- Trading Operations (e.g. we would work with exchanges to set up connections, cancel orders etc)
My background is:
- CompSci/Economics BA
- MBA
- ~20 years of basically doing the above roles. I started supporting an in house Order Management System at a large bank and then went from there.
For more detail, here is my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-elliott-3210352/
I also have a thread about the types of outages you see in this line of work here: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1215876962809339904?s=20
(I have a lot of other trading/SRE related threads here: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1212223167944478720?s=20)