Grant Newsome
System Architect at Jump Trading
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Newsome is a systems architect specializing in ultra low-latency hardware and software trading systems within the finance industry, currently architecting and implementing heterogeneous trading applications at Jump Trading. With a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and a background in network/systems programming, he blends hardware-aware design with high-performance software engineering. Over a compact but focused career he’s translated research-grade performance analysis into production trading infrastructure. He mentors and taught computer engineering labs early in his career, reflecting a habit of explaining complex systems clearly. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he brings hands-on implementation experience to architecture decisions, often optimizing at the intersection of FPGA/ASIC-aware hardware and kernel-level networking. Colleagues rely on him to balance theoretical throughput gains with practical, deployable low-latency solutions.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
solana10
blockchain9
anchor9
cryptocurrency9
crypto8
consensus7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
firedancer-io/firedancer
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana validator software.
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 months
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