Neil Avery
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarNeil Avery is a founder and streaming-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading technical teams and products from London. He has a strong background in streaming systems and observability, having worked with LiquidLabs, Confluent, and as CTO/founder of Logscape, blending hands-on coding with product and platform leadership. Known as a "code‑monkey" who also thinks like an operator, he bridges engineering pragmatism with entrepreneurial drive. Outside of work he channels creativity into songwriting and is an avid tennis and snowboarding enthusiast, bringing team energy and resilience to high-pressure projects.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (90)
specification10
stream-processing10
serverless10
streaming10
plot10
interactive10
sql10
ksqldb10
database10
kafka-connect10
cloudevents10
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
velostreamai/velostream
Jul 2025 - Feb 2026
Velostream is a high-performance streaming SQL engine built in Rust, designed for real-time analytics on financial and time-series data. It supports pluggable formats (JSON, Avro, Protobuf) and emphasizes low-latency processing, precision, and seamless integration with modern data pipelines
Contributions:1 review, 41 PRs, 366 pushes in 7 months
a2aa2a-protocolautomomous-agentsdata-streamingdata-streaming-pipeline
specmesh/specmesh-build
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:111 reviews, 59 commits, 121 PRs in 4 months
javadatameshkafkagradlespecmesh
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