Joe Honour
Vice President at Nomura
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Honour is a Vice President and hands-on software engineer with 10 years building low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed systems across eFX trading, real-time audio, advertising exchanges, and public-sector platforms. He currently drives core market-making, risk and connectivity components for Nomura’s eFX desk, owning end-to-end latency and execution competitiveness using JVM tech and high-performance networking. Joe’s background includes architecting a greenfield matching engine and operating systems that handle 100k+ auctions/sec and 1M+ concurrent streams with sub-millisecond responses, reflecting deep expertise in SBE/Aeron, multicast, and profiling at scale. He combines leadership with ongoing technical curiosity in distributed computing and high-performance systems, and enjoys technical writing that distills complex performance engineering topics. An unusual strength is his track record of delivering both mission-critical financial infrastructure and consumer-facing, always-on media systems—demonstrating rare breadth across commercial domains.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Newcastle University
English
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Github Skills (33)
java9
microservices8
data-structure8
proxies8
csharp7
kubernetes7
security7
consul7
data-structures7
api-management7
golang6
fault-injection6
observe6
resiliency6
nomad6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Guardian-Development/Uni_Tracker
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
An application for university students to track their current grade and calculate what grade they need to reach a desired final grade.
Contributions:72 PRs, 135 pushes, 77 branches in 4 months
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Guardian-Development/AWS_SA_Notes
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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