Niall Douglas
My Expert Consulting Firm (VAT Registered) at ned Productions Limited
Cork, Munster, Ireland
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Top SchoolNiall Douglas is a systems-focused software engineer and consultant with nearly three decades of experience and a proven track record building low-latency, highly reliable C/C++ systems for clients from startups to LSEG. He founded ned Productions, has 14+ years of sustained professional practice, and contributed extensively to open source and ISO standardisation as an Irish national representative on WG14 and former WG21 participant. His work spans kernel device drivers to cloud orchestration and includes a Boost-accepted fundamentals library (Outcome), a patented low-latency trading database design, and production i/o executors that outperformed reference benchmarks. A frequent speaker and peer reviewer at CppCon, ACCU and C++ Now, he combines deep formal training across mathematics, economics and software engineering with practical leadership of large-budget projects and developer mentoring. Notably, he blends experimental language-level error-handling ideas (library-based deterministic failure models) with real-world systems engineering to reduce latency and improve determinism across mixed Rust/C/C++ stacks.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Mathematics, Mathematics, Higher Mathematics, Mathematics at The Open UniversityCertificate, Introduction to Complexity, Certificate, Introduction to Complexity at The Sante Fe InstituteMA, Economics & Management, MA, Economics & Management at University of St AndrewsBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Trinity College DublinBSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at University of HullLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Presentation Brothers College CorkMBS, Business Information Systems, MBS, Business Information Systems at University College CorkPGCert, Educational and Social Research, PGCert, Educational and Social Research at UCL Institute of Education
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
low-level10
pe-analyzer10
implicit10
visual-studio10
cpp10
ninja10
bitwise10
single-file10
browser10
constant-time10
ispc10
tar10
iteration10
package-manager10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ned14/outcome
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Provides very lightweight outcome<T> and result<T> (non-Boost edition)
Contributions:12 releases, 9 reviews, 1624 commits in 7 years 3 months
outcomeboostc-plus-plus
ned14/stl-header-heft
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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