Eduardo Sanchez-Ros

Lead Engineer with over 25 years of experience delivering enterprise-grade software across financial services, trading platforms, payment systems, video streaming, retail and utilities. I design and implement full-lifecycle systems, from clean, API-first interfaces to scalable backend architectures, cloud-native infrastructure and intelligent data-driven components.

My engineering style is grounded in Hexagonal Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development and Clean Code principles, ensuring solutions are resilient, maintainable and aligned with business outcomes.

Monark Markets

Lead Software Engineer / Head ATS Engineer

• Led development of the matching engine powering Monark's secondary trading platform, ensuring compliance, performance, and scalability.
• Assisted the primary offerings team by contributing to their API development, delivering incremental features.
• Integrated with FINRA ORF, Apex Clearing, and nTier for CAT reporting. Also integrated with UMS (Nasdaq's matching engine) for trade execution.
• Collaborated with product and legal teams to align platform capabilities with regulatory frameworks.
• Building integrations with third-party data providers such as Yahoo Finance and Sacra to enrich private market data.

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AstraZeneca

Senior Software Engineer

• Contributed to an R&D initiative to unify access request forms for internal studies, focusing on infrastructure, backend, and build pipelines.
• Helped develop a platform to streamline the end-to-end user journey and accelerate data access via Access Policy enablement.
• Built integration pipelines for DEID tracker integration and data normalisation.
• Wrote BDD test scenarios aligned with feature requirements.

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Sky

Senior Software Engineer

• Redeveloped the Bookmarking Service, a high-traffic system handling up to 2,500 req/s, using Java 17 and Spring Boot.
• Built and deployed services on Kubernetes, leveraging Kafka for event-driven processing and Cassandra for scalable storage.
• Contributed to the modernisation of a core database-backed service for storing critical user activity.
• Ensured high availability through proactive monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager.
• Identified and resolved bottlenecks with Gatling performance testing.

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LEX Markets

Lead Software Engineer — Trading Systems

• Responsible for the full lifecycle of an Alternative Trading System (ATS) for a New York-based startup.
• Designed and implemented an Order Matching Engine using CQRS and event-driven architecture.
• Built a Market Data service publishing real-time events to subscribers.
• Developed a FIX Adapter service and integrated the Investor Platform with the Order Matching Engine.
• Integrated with Nasdaq's UME, FINRA ORF, and Apex Clearing systems.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

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National Trust

Senior Java Developer

• Designed new architecture using AWS DynamoDB and S3 for the National Trust Revenue applications (Join, Renew, Donation, MyNT).
• Created new services for the Donate application and developed features for existing services.
• Mentoring of junior members and apprentices.
• Strong focus on quality: clean code, pair programming, TDD, and BDD with Cucumber and Cypress.

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Appsbroker Consulting

Senior Java Developer

• Worked on Project Sentinel delivering a MiFID II compliant solution to a consortium of global banks with Google and Adaptive.
• Integrated the compliance service with Trax Markets and TRADEcho via FIX protocol.
• Implemented the events service aggregator for trading events into BigQuery.
• Implemented the reference data REST API.

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Visa Europe

Lead Software Engineer

• Delivered new services and propositions for Visa's innovation hub (Visa Europe Collab).
• Led the Checkout team for Visa's digital wallet, managing APIs for payment service providers and merchants, overseeing a team of six developers and three QAs.
• Played a pivotal role in re-architecting and redeveloping the system for scalability and performance.
• Provided leadership and mentoring to the Mobile team.

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Yell

Lead Java Developer

• Member of the Platform/Architecture team for yell.com in the UK.
• Quality and performance improvement of a high-availability image store serving 12M+ requests/month.
• Key contact on creation of a new global platform for the business.
• Defined coding standards, canonical data model and versioning standards.
• Increased test coverage in core services to over 90%.

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Cognito

Technical Lead / Senior Developer

• Led a large number of projects designing, developing and delivering middleware services and customer integrations.
• Design and delivery of large transactional workflow management systems using Java EE (EJB3, Hibernate, JMS, TIBCO).
• Scrum master, mentored junior developers through pair programming.
• Delivered the largest customer project on time and on budget as Technical Lead.

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Caja Madrid

Software Engineer

• R&D team at Headquarters designing Active Directory-based applications for user management, certificate authorities, and smart card management.
• Led a team of three responsible for auditing and statistical data collection applications.

Sainsel Sistemas Navales & Telefónica

Software Engineer

Naval simulator development (Sainsel) and Government Emergency Call Center applications (Telefónica).