If you’ve read this blog before, you may have noticed a cluster of posts from 2013-2016, followed by a suspiciously long silence until late 2025. The main reason for that gap was a job change in mid-2017, when I left Fivium and joined LMAX Exchange Group.

LMAX didn’t discourage blogging - quite the opposite. But the work demanded more focus, the commute was a lot longer, and life outside work also became busier. Something had to give, and unfortunately that something was writing. Lately I’ve been trying to get back into it, which has involved reflecting on some of the more interesting things I’ve worked on over the last decade.

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