Matt Barrett
CEO at Adaptive
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Barrett is a CEO and technology founder with 12 years of hands-on software and capital markets experience and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Auckland. He co-founded Adaptive in 2012 to accelerate technology delivery for banks, exchanges, brokers and asset managers, and has grown the firm to ~250 people across five countries while focusing on high-throughput, low-latency trading systems. With a background as a developer and consultant at institutions including Barclays Capital and Lab49, he blends deep engineering credibility with commercial leadership. In 2022 he led Adaptive’s acquisition of RealLogic, positioning the company to drive cloud migration of trading infrastructure and contribute to Aeron, a critical open-source building block for next‑gen systems. Matt is a New Zealand native based in the UK who prioritizes building great engineering teams and durable technology that helps markets operate more effectively.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Github Skills (26)
trading10
finance10
typescript10
signalr10
rxjs10
credit10
react10
openfin9
rxnet9
reactiveui9
wpf9
html9
csharp5
dotnet5
reactive4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AdaptiveConsulting/adaptive-reactive
Jul 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
ghuntley/ReactiveTrader
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Sample reactive UIs in WPF and HTML5, using RxNet/RxJS and SignalR
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
reactiveuirxjsrxnetsignalrwpf
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