Summary
Sacha Barber is a Technical Lead with 11 years of professional software experience and a career spanning real-time trading systems, low-latency C++ pub/sub, and cloud-native microservices. He currently leads a 20-engineer global analytics team at TP ICAP, building front-office .NET microservices and real-time pricing surfaces integrated with AWS streaming and storage technologies. His background includes architecting containerised trading platforms for crypto at XBTO and modernising cloud analytics at Nephila, demonstrating strong cross-stack fluency from React/Redux frontends to Kafka/MSK, Kinesis, and DynamoDB backends. A nine-time Microsoft MVP in Visual C#, he brings deep expertise in multithreading, performance-sensitive systems and pragmatic platform migrations. Based in Hove, UK, he combines hands-on coding with advisory architecture work and a proven knack for turning monoliths into loosely coupled, latency-optimised services.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Bsc Hons 1st class, Computer Science Bsc Hons 1st class at University of Sussex