Hector Stalker
Technology Director at Morgan Stanley
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHector Stalker is a Technology Director and low-latency systems specialist with 11 years of experience building correctness- and performance-critical software for electronic trading at Morgan Stanley. He designs and owns soft real-time, cross-region services and implements core components in C++ (with Java and Python), combining deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic delivery. His interests span programming language design, optimizing compilers, developer tooling and reverse engineering, reflected in past work on a strongly-typed functional language JIT and low-latency logging. Colleagues rely on him as an SME for latency and uptime-critical infrastructure where subtle implementation choices directly affect business outcomes. British-based and open to relocation, he brings a hobbyist’s long-standing curiosity—tweaking environments so they can be forgotten for a decade—into disciplined, production-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of YorkSimon Langton Boys Grammar School
English, Japanese, German, French
Github Skills (4)
jit7
compiler6
javascript4
browser4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hstalker/hstalker.github.io
Jun 2019 - May 2025
Personal site: Sigbus Factor. The name is of course an awful attempt at a portmanteau :-)
Contributions:24 PRs, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
javascriptnodejsfactorawful
hstalker/dotfiles
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:467 commits, 527 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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