Neil Horlock
Independent Consultant Writer Trainer Speaker at Zyxt Technology
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Horlock is an independent consultant, writer, trainer and speaker with 25+ years of deep technical experience designing low-latency market connectivity and exchange connectivity solutions for financial markets. He has led global architecture and specialist teams at Credit Suisse and now advises banks on high-performance market data, FIX protocol enhancements and regulatory clock synchronisation required by MiFID II. A hands-on engineer fluent in C++, Python and assembler, he combines protocol-level expertise (including chairing FIX clock-sync efforts) with practical delivery of HFT-capable systems and information security design. Active as a STEM ambassador and code-club organiser, he brings both technical rigor and a passion for mentoring, and is noted for applying HPC thinking (e.g., Nanostreams) to reduce power and latency in trading infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS (honours), Open, Bachelor of Science - BS (honours), Open at The Open UniversityOakwood Park Grammar School
Github Skills (47)
electron10
typescript10
editor9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
java9
python9
iot9
cpp9
raspberry-pi9
home-automation8
music8
jupyter-kernels8
multicore8
mqtt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nhorlock/XeusClingTalk
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
nhorlock/enviropi
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 months
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