Summary
Alex Brown is a software engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience focused on high-performance systems, particularly C++, networking, computer graphics, and operating systems. He combines industry experience at IMC Trading with academic research from UNSW—his honours thesis and subsequent research work evaluated and improved SIMD-based set intersection algorithms for database applications. Alex has practical OS-level experience building a high-performance asynchronous sound system and improving VM networking in a microkernel environment, and he’s tutored data structures and algorithms, showing strong foundations in algorithmic thinking. Comfortable switching between research and production, he brings a proven ability to optimize low-level code paths and apply those insights to real-world trading and systems problems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney