Ewan Bains
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEwan Bains is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-performance systems in C++, Rust, and Python, currently contributing to infrastructure at Meta after roles at Smarkets, Collect Trading, and FactSet. He focuses on efficiency and scale—summed up by his tagline “let’s build fast things faster”—and has practical experience saving megawatts in power-sensitive infrastructure. Comfortable across trading, data, and platform engineering, he brings low-level language expertise to production-grade services. Trained at the University of Birmingham, Ewan pairs algorithmic rigor with a bias for shipping measurable optimizations in real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (38)
linux10
toolbox9
nix9
nixos9
blockchain9
ethereum9
unity3d9
serve9
memory-profiling8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
intelligent8
p2p8
nixpkgs8
stable-baselines8
reinforcement-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ewan15/TTable
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ewan15/nixpkgs
Sep 2022 - Feb 2024
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
nixosnix-packages
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