Jonathan Franklin
Automated Trading System
My work on Pricesearcher's FX/CFD trading platform: MetaTrader execution, a Python trade engine, strategy research, data collection and reporting.
Work
Selected work in backend systems, data engineering, web applications and automated trading. Each project covers the problem, my contribution and the technical decisions behind it.
Professional
MT5 OHLCV Bars Pipeline
A scheduled MetaTrader 5 pipeline that stores one-minute bars as partitioned Parquet on S3, with local caching and historical backfills for research.
Statistical Arbitrage Strategy
FX/CFD pair-trading research and execution: statistical selection, scheduled signals, MQL5 and Python engines, backtesting and setup monitoring.
Socketrade Trading Bot
An event-driven MetaTrader 5 runtime with an MQL5–Python socket bridge, reloadable trading setups, position management and shared historical replay.
Ads & Affiliate Revenue Platform
Advertising cost and affiliate revenue integration, with Python reporting services and a Next.js dashboard for campaign performance.
Pricesearcher.com Web Frontend
React and Next.js frontend work for Pricesearcher: shared vertical layouts, product search, affiliate integration and serverless deployment.
Data Orchestration & Platform Operations
Airflow migration and operational maintenance for scheduled data pipelines, including freshness checks, Slack alerts and AWS infrastructure.
Elasticsearch Product Search Index
Country-specific Elasticsearch indexing, product-link enrichment and Google Sheets publishing for Pricesearcher's search services.
Multi-Source Product Search API
Python API work combining Pricesearcher's product index with Amazon, Yahoo and Kelkoo offers, with client-specific interfaces and Redis-backed search features.
Product Web Crawler
Python crawler and API work for merchant product data: S3-managed sitemaps, compressed sitemap support and crawl scheduling on AWS.
Merchant Image Proxy
Customisation and AWS deployment of the Go-based willnorris/imageproxy project for merchant product images.
Affiliate Offers & Vouchers Pipeline
Affiliate feed download, normalisation and Elasticsearch indexing for offers and vouchers, plus Kelkoo link-cache synchronisation.
Product Catalog Pipeline: Feeds to Products
Merchant feed ingestion and Spark enrichment, with download retries, country-specific processing and product data prepared for search.
Personal
Quantrade Research System
My Python research system for comparing ML trading ideas with time-ordered evaluation, fee-aware simulations, benchmark plans and streaming features.