James Green
Data Engineering Manager
Mid Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Green is a Data Engineering Manager with 10+ years’ experience building high-performance big data and low-latency systems for banking front offices, specializing in Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and Elasticsearch for fixed-income market making and price discovery. He combines deep market connectivity and FIX/FAST experience from long-tenure roles at Nomura and other financial firms with modern data-platform leadership at Simply Business. Known for pragmatic architecture across streaming, parquet/avro storage and real-time pricing, he bridges trading-domain nuance and scalable engineering. Based in Mid Sussex, he brings a rare mix of hands-on low-latency C++/Java background and contemporary data ops practices—useful when untangling both market liquidity problems and cloud-native pipeline complexity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Leeds
Github Skills (11)
sink4
apache-kafka3
kafka3
ruby3
yaml3
client-library3
librdkafka3
producer2
debezium2
confluent1
confluent-cloud1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
simplybusiness/kafka-topic-config
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Configure Kafka topics from yaml and vice-versa
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
sinkversaconfigurekafkayaml
simplybusiness/confluent-kafka
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
ansible role and tests confluent-kafka
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
sinkconfluent-cloudansibleansible-roleconfluent-kafka
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