Arturs Licis
Engineering at Marshall Wace
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArturs Licis is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across finance and ecommerce. He has operated at scale—owning services processing 300K+ TPS at Amazon—and more recently focused on execution and pre/post-trade processing for leading asset managers. Comfortable alternating between hands-on coding, system design, and team leadership, he emphasizes pragmatic, common-sense solutions that drive continuous improvement. His background spans distributed Java platforms, trading/order management systems, and enterprise frameworks, reflecting deep backend and systems expertise. Based in London, he pairs an academic foundation (MSc with distinction in IT Project Management) with a track record of shipping reliable software in both startup and large-company environments. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prefers practical, well-tested innovations over theoretical complexity.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraM. Sc. with Distinction, IT Project Management, M. Sc. with Distinction, IT Project Management at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
English, Russian, Latvian
Stackoverflow
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java
top-5%
eclipse
top-5%
Github Skills (47)
jms10
stomp10
messaging10
amqp10
broker10
java10
searching10
pcre10
command-line-tool10
artemis10
ack10
apache9
grep9
mqtt9
hornetq9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
art-licis/activemq-artemis
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
artemisactivemqapachejavaapache-activemq
art-licis/dijkstra-dynamic
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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