David Dight
CEO And Founder at Fix8 Market Tech
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Dight is a hands-on software architect and founder with over 30 years of deep expertise in high-performance trading systems and protocol gateways, particularly FIX, built in modern C++ on *NIX. As CEO and Founder of Fix8 Market Tech he commercialises and maintains Fix8, a well-regarded open-source C++ FIX framework, and delivers enterprise-grade engines and low-latency matching systems to exchanges, brokers and regulators. His career spans leading roles at Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank and other market participants where he designed smart order routers, multicast systems and real-time market data infrastructure that materially improved execution and internalisation. A pragmatic engineer who still codes, he has directly contributed core session and message handling features to the popular fix8 repo, reflecting both product and community stewardship. Known for relentless focus on quality, efficiency and accuracy, he pairs architectural vision with hands-on development of algo engines and crypto trading platforms. Based in Sydney, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with decades of capital markets operational knowledge to produce robust, performance-critical FinTech.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Homebush Boys High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Western Sydney University
Github Skills (15)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
fixprotocol10
messagebox9
messaging9
message-bus9
message-handler9
message-driven8
data-processing8
session-management8
message-queue8
message-system8
c177
cpp7
schema6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fix8/fix8
Aug 2015 - Aug 2021
Modern open source C++ FIX framework featuring complete schema customisation, high performance and fast development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 27 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the core functionality of the C++ FIX framework, implementing features related to the console menu, message handling, and session management. They addressed bugs, and added new features such as creating messages from inbound templates. Additionally, the user made enhancements, like displaying message sending time and sequence numbers. The changes involved modifications to the console menu, message processing, and session handling, indicating a focus on the application's underlying mechanics.
cppfixmessage-persistencec-plus-plusdoxygen
fix8mt/uri
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Lightweight header-only C++20 URI parser
Contributions:4 releases, 319 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
parserc-plus-plus-20cpp20header-onlyuniform-resource-identifiers
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.