Nick Pearson
Principal Engineer (Low Latency)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Pearson is a Principal Engineer specializing in low-latency, performance-critical systems with 11 years of professional experience and a foundational MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol. Based in London, he has progressed through multiple backend and senior roles at BidFX, now leading low-latency engineering efforts to optimize high-throughput financial platforms. His background includes early game and tooling experience at Sumo Digital and Mission Ctrl Studios, giving him a practical appreciation for tight performance budgets and systems-level optimization. Nick excels at turning latency and reliability constraints into measurable product advantages, often focusing on microsecond-level improvements that compound at scale. He brings a blend of hands-on coding, mentoring, and architecture work, bridging graduate-level academic rigor with production-grade engineering. Colleagues describe him as methodical and data-driven, with a penchant for squeezing extra performance from existing systems rather than defaulting to costly rewrites.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (34)
abcjs10
scatter10
barchart9
plot9
unreal9
data-vizualisation8
react8
statistics8
finance8
large-scale8
financial8
candlestick-chart8
plotly8
unreal-engine-47
multiplayer7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Nick-Pearson/forestgame
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 157 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
Nick-Pearson/PlanetEngine
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 138 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 5 months
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