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David Smith

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Global Head of Systems Engineering at Adaptive
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

As Global Head of Systems Engineering at Adaptive, Fergus Keenan specializes in building high-performance trading systems for 24x7 markets. A graduate of Imperial College London with a Masters in Engineering, he is a frequent public speaker on the unique challenges and architectural approaches in modern financial technology.

He is a prominent voice in the Aeron open-source community, speaking internationally on advanced messaging and sequencer architectures for high-throughput financial systems.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Global Head of Systems Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Trading Architecture
He frequently speaks about designing resilient, scalable trading systems and shares the unique techniques his team employs to solve complex problems in capital markets.
Digital Assets Tech
Actively discusses the unique engineering challenges that digital asset classes pose and the innovative ways his teams are working to overcome them.
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Work history

4-2024
Global Head of Systems Engineering
Adaptive
12-2022 - 4-2024
Head of Java Practice (London)
Adaptive
11-2017 - 12-2022
Senior Consultant
Adaptive
4-2012 - 11-2017
Principal Software Engineer
Software AG
7-2011 - 4-2012
Software Developer
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Education
2007 - 2011
Masters in Engineering
Imperial College London
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