Bio

As a Senior Performance Architect with 15+ years of experience in systems architecture and development, I excel in technical innovation, architecting commodities trading platforms, and minimizing latency. My background in the commodities space spans a large portion of my career. This deep industry knowledge includes an extensive understanding of the full cycle commodities trading infrastructure. As an industry thought leader, I have a natural drive and passion for expanding trading application engineering knowledge. This includes writing published articles and delivering presentations at industry events. As an Amazon Affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. - CORE COMPETENCIES - •IT Team Leadership •Performance Design/Engineering •Platform Architecture •Vendor Management •Latency Reduction •Application/Kernel Profiling •Public Speaking •Technical Writing •Emerging Technologies •Trading Applications •Platform Engineering •Performance Testing - TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES - •Platforms: Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, ONTAP, FreeBSD, Azul Zing •Languages: Bash, Python, C/C++, Perl, R •Tools: Intel VTune, Linux perf/Ftrace, jHiccup, Wireshark, Coz, Clang-Tidy, Clang Sanitizers, JMeter, Wireshark •RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL •Networking: Spirent TestCenter, TCP/IP, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Cisco/Arista Switches, EMC SAN, NetApp ''It's easy to be great. . . it's hard to be consistent.'' -- Steve Martin