These slides are from a presentation given at the 2015 season of Careers After Biological Sciences talks at the University of Leicester, UK. Dr Hannah Boulding described he journey from an undergraduate degree in Medical Genetics to a career in financial software development.

1. The IT Crowd: Careers in
software development
Dr Hannah Boulding

2. My Career so far….
• 2006-2009 Bsc. Medical Genetics.
University of Leicester
• Summer 2008 Research Assistant.
King’s college London
• 2009-2013 PhD Bioinformatics.
University of Oxford
• 2013-now. Financial software
developer. Bloomberg, London.

3. What is Bloomberg?
• The Bloomberg terminal is a piece of software
that brings information to the financial
markets.

4. Life as a software developer
• Programming!
– ~90% of my day
• Talking to the business team
– Discuss new features for our product
– Coordinate code releases
• Training
– Financial
– I.T.

5. Not just finance

6. Becoming a software developer
• Self study
– http://www.codecademy.com
– https://www.udacity.com
• Lab work
– http://tinyurl.com/LeicesterBioinformatics