Damask Talary-brown is a Vice President and tech lead at Morgan Stanley with 11 years of experience building low-latency, server-side C++ infrastructure and driving firmwide modernisation. He focuses on developer productivity and cross-language messaging (C++/Java), combining microarchitecture analysis with practical tooling to shave cycles where it matters. Known for championing modern C++ practices, he also teaches and advocates publicly—balanced by a willingness to defend Python when the debate gets lively. His career includes hands-on hardware profiling for latency-critical trading systems and leading a low-latency C++ library stack used across teams. A First Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Bath, he brings both deep systems expertise and a continuous-learning mindset to complex production environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science (Hons) with Industrial Placement, First Class, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science (Hons) with Industrial Placement, First Class at University of Bath
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Damask Talary-brown - Vice President at Morgan Stanley