Resume

 
Justin Smallwood
Quantitative Solutions
Languages
Python
R
SQL
JavaScript
HTML / CSS
Excel
C++
Frameworks
Django
React
Flask
jQuery
RShiny
dbt
PySide6
Developer Tools
Docker
Git
dagster
GitHub Actions / CI/CD
Terraform
Databases
Postgres
Redis
Cloud Services
Amazon Web Services
Visualization Tools
Tableau
Work Experience
Vice President – Technology
Catalyst Funds Management2022 — 2025

Vice President – Technology (2024 — 2025)

Associate – Technology (2022 — 2024)

Associate
Goldman Sachs Australia2018 — 2022

Associate – ETF Market Making Strategist (2021 — 2022)

Associate – Delta One Trading (2021 — 2021)

Analyst – Delta One Trading (2018 — 2020)

Tutor
University of Melbourne2013 — 2017

Led over 1000 tutorials across the Department of Economics and School of Mathematics & Statistics.

Selected as a peer mentor by the Faculty of Business & Economics in recognition of stellar performance on teaching evaluations.

Senior Academic Tutor / Residential Tutor
International House2015 — 2017

Responsible for the academic program, timetabling, pastoral care, and teaching mathematics tutorials.

Infrastructure Assistant
The Innovation Group2012 — 2014
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Astronomy & Supercomputing)
Swinburne University2025 – 2029

Topic: GPU Pipelines for Beamforming and Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation using Phased Array Feeds

Master of Science with Distinction (Mathematics & Statistics)
University of Melbourne2015 — 2017

First Class Honours average. Recipient of the Maurice Belz Scholarship. Specialized in Statistics & Stochastic Processes, Thesis: “Limit Order Book Modelling”.

Bachelor of Commerce (Economics)
University of Melbourne2011 — 2014

First Class Honours average. Recipient of subject prizes in “Time Series Analysis” and “Applied Microeconometric Modelling”. Recipient of the Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholar Scholarship.

Diploma of Mathematical Sciences (Statistics & Stochastic Processes)
University of Melbourne2012 — 2014

First Class Honours average. Specialized in Statistics & Stochastic Processes.

Research Projects
Limit Order Book Modelling
University of Melbourne2015 — 2017

Master of Science thesis receiving a High Distinction.

Supervisor: Professor Konstantin Borovkov.

Solutions of PDEs in Sobolev Spaces
Australian National University2014 — 2015

ANU Summer Scholarship.

Supervisor: Professor John Urbas.

Drift Estimation on a Spatial Lattice
AMSI / University of Melbourne2013 — 2014

AMSI Summer Scholarship.

Supervisor: Dr. Owen Jones.

Prizes & Scholarships
Maurice H Belz Scholarship
University of Melbourne2016

Awarded on academic merit to Masters students undertaking research in the area of statistics, applied probability, stochastic processes or operations research.

Jean Polglaze Memorial Prize for Applied Microeconometric Modelling
University of Melbourne2015

Awarded to the highest scoring student in ECOM30003 Applied Microeconometric Modelling.

Jean Polglaze Memorial Prize for Times Series Analysis and Forecasting
University of Melbourne2015

Awarded to the highest scoring student in ECOM30004 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting.

ANU Summer Scholarship
Australian National University2014 — 2015
Summer Scholarship
AMSI2013 — 2014
Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholar
University of Melbourne2011