Chris Newland
Senior Staff Engineer at ADVFN
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Newland is a Senior Staff Engineer and FinTech specialist with 12 years of hands-on Java and performance engineering experience, currently leading market-data performance at ADVFN. A Java Champion and creator of widely used JVM analysis tools such as JITWatch and VM Options Explorer, he builds tools that make HotSpot behaviour and JIT decisions transparent to developers. His background spans founding startups, leading regulated FinTech operations as COO of All IPO Plc, and shipping low-latency market data and regulatory systems for real trading environments. Chris combines deep JVM internals expertise with operational pragmatism—he not only diagnoses inlining and native compilation issues but also implements fixes and performance improvements in the tools he maintains. He holds a First-Class BSc in Computer Science and is based in England, bringing both academic rigour and decades of market-facing product experience.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, 1st Class, BSc Hons, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Hertfordshire
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Github Skills (6)
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java10
javafx6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch
Oct 2013 - Aug 2022
Log analyser / visualiser for Java HotSpot JIT compiler. Inspect inlining decisions, hot methods, bytecode, and assembly. View results in the JavaFX user interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:11 releases, 6 reviews, 666 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving performance and addressing bugs in the Java HotSpot JIT compiler analysis tool. Their commits include bug fixes within the TriView component, bytecode annotation enhancements for visualizing inlining and branch probability, and improved accuracy in the source code linking functionality. Additionally, the user contributed to the tool's functionality by adding a new feature to show all native compilations per method in the TriView window.
decisionsuser-interfacevisualiserjitanalyser
chriswhocodes/jitwatch
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:80 commits in 1 month
analyserloggingcompilerhotspotjava
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