Granville Barnett
Architect at Hazelcast
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGranville Barnett is an architect specializing in concurrency, programming languages and distributed systems, currently driving architecture at Hazelcast after progressing from software engineer to architect. He combines academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on experience across research labs and financial technology, including technical leadership within Equities at Citi and R&D roles at WANdisco. Granville's work spans operating systems, memory subsystems and large-scale distributed data platforms, bringing a rare blend of low-level systems insight and practical production delivery. Based in the UK, he has repeatedly translated research ideas into product features across enterprise and trading environments. Colleagues rely on him for clarity on complex concurrency and consistency trade-offs and for shaping system architecture under real-world performance constraints.
2 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Durham University
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Github Skills (40)
caching10
computation10
in-memory10
low-latency10
hazelcast10
big-data10
storage10
distributed-systems10
stress-testing10
java10
distributed-computing10
bigtable10
stream-processing10
scalability10
clustering10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gbarnett-hz/hazelcast
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Open-source distributed computation and storage platform. Hazelcast is a real-time stream processing platform that lets you build applications that take action on data immediately.
Contributions:2 PRs, 105 pushes, 24 branches in 4 months
gbarnett-hz/hz-docs
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Source content for the Hazelcast Platform documentation
Contributions:44 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 4 months
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