Colin de Silva

ServiceNow Data Engineering

Responsible for developing and engineering an asset information database solution, assembling HP Asset Management and other federated data sources for migration and integration to a new ServiceNow-based system.

Market Data Engineering - delivering a new global architecture for market data services.

Solutions Architect at Thomson Reuters specialising in hosted market data product solutions delivered via the Internet. Managed architecture solution for the Eikon for Wealth Management product to production (Q4 2011). Led cost reduction initiative to migrate key architectural components, from a dedicated market data system to the strategic Common Platform architecture containing RMDS and DACS-derived infrastructure.

Recruited, trained and managed a brand new Engineering team in the US to deliver and support a shared infrastructure solution. Successfully introduced and trained the Development and Operations teams to use new automated solutions and standards. Engineered custom time-series and news technologies. Managed to production the solution supporting the TRKD product ($50m in revenue).

Managed the team delivering the global market data design for data centres, supporting high capacity hosted products such as 3000 Xtra Hosted and 3000IP, bringing in revenues of $220m and supporting 22K ‘power’ users at its peak.

Responsible for designing and delivering high capacity hosted market data solutions for various Internet-delivered products.

Degree project and dissertation - "Design of a Small Instrumented Rocket"