We tested both! By Viviane Souty, Data Engineer at Sidetrade Each year, Sidetrade hosts its much-loved Hackathon. It’s an opportunity for Sidetraders across all departments to come together and try to find innovative solutions to problems. At the latest Hackathon, we conducted experiments in order to figure out the best way to solve the problem of Anomaly Detection. The core question, we tried to answer was; given our dataset, which approach could be more suitable? Signal Processing? Machine Learning? Or both?

Meet Kieran Raine, Software Engineer at Sidetrade, based in Birmingham (UK). Kieran first joined Sidetrade after completing Sidetrade’s entry-level coding course, Sidetrade Code Academy in 2018. Congratulations on running your first Sidetrade Code Academy! You’ve been at Sidetrade now since 2018 after going through the Sidetrade Code Academy yourself. Can…

Meet Natasha Rollason, QA Engineer at Sidetrade, and graduate of Sidetrade Code Academy 2019. We sat down with her to discuss how she got started in her career, how she overcame the initial imposter syndrome, and her advice to anyone looking to start their own career in tech. How did…

Earlier this month I attended my very first Web Summit. Here are the three things I would advise to anyone else going as a first timer for next year… Luke Hennerley, Principal Engineer at Sidetrade What is Web Summit? Web Summit has come to be known as one of the world’s biggest and best…

For anyone who might be interested in relocating to this fantastic city By Ian Cadman, Director of Engineering at Sidetrade Birmingham has been placed in the world’s spotlight over the last couple of weeks as the Commonwealth Games descended on the city. For those of you that don’t know, the…

Reduce test execution time with the flexibility to run against different browser versions Authors: Oliver Agar, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Sam Berry, Software Development Engineer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Simon Parr, Senior Software Developer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Here at Sidetrade, we have…

By Luke Hennerley As a techie in any discipline, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-shifting landscape and so many information sources. Recently in Sidetrade’s Birmingham office, a few of us have been discussing the evolution of “Tech Twitter” which is exactly what it says on the…

A key part of our cash collection service involves document conversion from HTML templates to DOC, XLS or PDF. After years of usage, our current solution causes us conversion issues from time to time and we also started seeing limitations such as difficulty of integrating it into new APIs. At…

The problem — Do you trust your data? By Victor Bouvier, Data Scientist at Sidetrade Before deploying a machine learning (ML) model into a product, we need to evaluate its performance. A well-adopted practice is to split the data into a train set (data used for training the model) and…