[drglitch]

Hi Steve, nice to see you on here and doing well! :)

My first thought was Athena as well, but it could be Quartz (it started in 08-09 at BaML, vs Athena starting in 2006).

Both Citi and Barcap also tried (albeit to less success than JPM/BaML) to do similar things.

With that said, For those unfamiliar - at least two major banks run insanely large production python installs across thousands of developers. Core skills (nowadays) are python and react - and yes, we’re all actively hiring :)

All of the large banks also have pretty good open source initiatives - just check out github repos for JPMorgan, BaML, or GS. We have also been active participants in Pycon (key sponsors and doing sessions, like Steve’s) since at least 2009.

[stevesimmons]

This thread is a real trip down memory lane!

I joined JPMorgan in 2010, as the first bank in London to offer me a Python role. I ended up staying for 8 years, almost all of it working in Athena: Commodities and FX trading; a bit of Equities; then with the Athena Core team working on the machine learning environment.

I learned a ton, worked with many hugely impressive people - on both the trading and technology sides of the business - and left with lots of good memories.

[tomrod]

I remember interacting with you at one point. Time flies!

[eindiran]

The word "bank" in the first sentence [0] links to the Wikipedia page for JP Morgan, so I'd wager it is Athena.

[0] "There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back."

[4gotunameagain]

A serious question, how do you feel about working at such a powerful bank that has been involved in so many controversies, to put it lightly?

It is not a far-fetched argument that institutes like that are only a burden to society, existing only to widen socio-economical gaps. The point of view of an insider would be very interesting I think.

[Infinitesimus]

Do you believe banks are a net negative to society? Or more about institutions that partake in trading and the like?