Alec Posney
Performance Engineer at Jump Trading
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Posney is a performance engineer with 12 years' experience building and optimizing low-latency systems for trading and cloud platforms, currently at Jump Trading after a multi-year tenure at IMC. He combines deep systems and cloud engineering expertise from roles at Atlassian and university projects, with hands-on experience tuning Django-based production services and operational workflows. Alec excels at reducing tail latency and improving throughput in high-stakes environments, translating complex performance profiles into practical infrastructure and code changes. Based in Sydney, he takes a privacy-first approach to outreach and prefers professional contact via LinkedIn messaging. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and focused on measurable performance outcomes that directly impact business-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyNSW Higher School Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, NSW Higher School Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Australian International School Singapore
Github Skills (137)
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rust10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
League-of-Foundry-Developers/fvtt-module-popout
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
FVTT Module PopOut!
Contributions:21 releases, 17 reviews, 74 commits in 2 years 4 months
fvttpopout
Posnet/xkcd-substitutions
Nov 2013 - Mar 2016
xkcd substitutions chrome extension
Contributions:48 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
chrome-extensionsubstitutionsxkcdchrome
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