Nick Palmer
Software Engineer at DRW
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Palmer is a software engineer with 14 years' experience specialising in low-latency, high-throughput systems, JVM performance tuning, Scala and Java-based trading platforms. He has driven measurable latency improvements in financial firms (LMAX, Barclays, Trumid) and introduced reproducible performance workflows using tools like async-profiler, JMH and JCStress. At LMAX he combined deep systems debugging—from websocket behaviour to kernel driver analysis—with product-facing analytics and even seeded a crypto custodian initiative. An active contributor to the well-known LMAX Disruptor project, he focuses on benchmarking and performance-driven feature work. Based in Southampton, he pairs hands-on engineering with hiring, mentoring and internal training to uplift team capability across the organisation.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing and Management, Computer Science, Business, Economics, BSc (Hons) Computing and Management, Computer Science, Business, Economics at Loughborough UniversityShrewsbury Sixth Form College
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
java10
javas10
jmh10
concurrency10
performance-monitor9
performance-analytics9
performance-measurement9
performance-monitoring9
performance-analysis9
performance-tuning9
itext6
pdf6
jboss6
sbt6
rectangles6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LMAX-Exchange/disruptor
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 65 reviews, 182 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on adding features and improving performance to the project. Their contributions included the addition of a JMH benchmark to measure performance. The user then addressed code styling with checkstyle and improved the existing benchmark code.
concurrencydisruptormessaging-libraryinterperformance
Fivium/jquery-tagger
Aug 2013 - Jul 2016
jQuery plugin to turn a HTML select into an auto-suggesting, tagging widget
Contributions:5 releases, 80 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 11 months
html-selectjquery-plugin
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