Joshua Newman
Head Of Engineering at Alvar Financial Services Limited
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Newman is a seasoned Head of Engineering with over 25 years of experience designing and delivering low-latency, front-office trading and real-time systems across investment banking, trading vendors, and crypto startups. He combines deep back-end expertise in Java/JVM ecosystems, messaging (FIX, Kafka), databases and AWS with hands-on coding and a proven track record of leading cross-functional, onshore/offshore teams to replace legacy platforms and build greenfield, microservices-based solutions. Joshua has led complex programmes for firms such as Jefferies, HSBC and Commerzbank, and helped scale trading and risk systems for both institutional and retail-facing products. Comfortable switching between architecture, delivery and day-to-day development, he emphasizes process improvement across the SDLC while keeping operational cost and maintainability in view. Based in Chelmsford, he brings uncommon continuity across financial markets, energy data ingestion and blockchain-backed trading from early-stage startups to large banks.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Birmingham3 A-Levels, 3 A-Levels at Northgate High School, IpswichMChem (Masters in Chemistry), Chemistry, MChem (Masters in Chemistry), Chemistry at University of Exeter9 GCSE's, 9 GCSE's at St Josephs College, Ipswich
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
newmanjb/TheBody
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
newmanjb/Platformer
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:190 pushes in 9 months
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