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Luke Harding

@lukeharding

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Former Team GB athlete turned fintech product engineer specialising in derivatives automation and analytics.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I seek a product-focused engineering or senior analytics role at a growth-stage fintech or data-driven company where I can build automation, shape product strategy, and mentor teams.

I am a fintech product engineer and former Team GB athlete with deep experience across derivatives markets, venture-building and technical delivery. I blend market intuition from hedge fund sales with hands-on engineering to build production analytics and automation.

At a hedge fund I delivered client-facing research, automated trading and reporting workflows, and built backend pricing and search tools using Python, Postgres and Linux. In venture roles I led GTM and engineered multi-API enrichment, semantic matching and agentic automation prototypes for fintech workflows.

I have presented to investor cohorts, engaged directly with SMEs and lenders during customer discovery, and retained equity as a co-founder after transitioning a venture. My background includes formal qualifications in algorithmic trading, capital markets and a fintech MSc with award-winning research.

I bring discipline, resilience and a collaborative mindset from elite sport into high-impact product and engineering roles, and I enjoy mentoring, public speaking and supporting community tech initiatives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Technical Director

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Orators

Nov 2025 - Present (3 months)

Designed and implemented GTM strategy for a venture-backed community and built automated multi-API enrichment workflows and a semantic member-matching network to improve personalised outreach and group curation.

HubSpot N8n OpenRouter Pgvector Graph RAG

Entrepreneur in Residence

Antler

Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 (9 months)

Built a VC-backable fintech prototype that secured FCA Supercharged Sandbox placement and transitioned to a co-founding team while retaining equity for the core codebase.

Python Flask Google Cloud Terraform GitHub Actions PostgreSQL TypeScript React Product Discovery

Quantitative Sales Analyst

PrismFP

Jun 2021 - Nov 2024 (3 years 5 months)

Covered hedge fund rate sales across US, EU & UK markets, produced global macro derivative trade ideas and built tools for exchange-traded flow search and central bank scenario pricing.

Python PostgreSQL CME Fidessa Linux Data Automation Market Research Trading Analytics

Team GB Kayaker

British Canoeing

Jan 2012 - Dec 2018 (6 years 11 months)

Represented Great Britain internationally in sprint and marathon kayaking (2012–2018), achieving top results including U18 European gold and U18 World silver while securing sponsorship and leading crew stroke.

Team Leadership Coaching Public Speaking Sponsorship Management

Summer Intern

Citibank

Jul 2020 - Present (5 years 7 months)

Gained exposure to pension fund restructuring, M&A comparables and DCF valuations and implemented portfolio optimisation in Python to improve stock selection and weightings.

Valuation Python Financial Analysis Comparables