Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francis-stephens/
Email: francisstephens@gmail.com
I currently live in Germany, but am moving to New Zealand in August.
I have a strong interest in system performance, at my previous job I spent 6 years working exclusively on performance for a high throughput backend system written in Go. I do enjoy development work in general, so I am not exclusively looking for performance focused work, but I do like it.
Some github repos representing my work
A small set of performance focused packages, most importantly including a very fast lock free queue implementation: https://github.com/fmstephe/flib
A high performance matching engine, such as would be found in a financial stock exchange, in Go. https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine
I developed an application for solving SAT problems on high core count CPUs. This was run on a proprietary AZUL machine with 756 cores back in 2001 (which was exciting). https://github.com/fmstephe/P2P-Distributed-Sat-Solver
Here is an example of a bug-fix I made to an existing open source project https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache/pull/17