About Me

I'm Chris Smith, author of The Aeron Files. I'm a software developer based near London.

LMAX

I learnt a lot about cluster technology while at LMAX for nearly 10 years, where I was privileged to work with Martin Thompson, Dave Farley and a whole team of other very clever folk. This was in-house cluster technology developed before Aeron was around, but still required business logic to be written with deterministic behaviour, still had journals and snapshots, etc.

Adaptive Financial Consulting

I later worked at Adaptive, where I worked as a contract developer with another very talented team, developing a CLOB exchange, this time using Aeron Cluster with Adaptive's Hydra platform. I also had the pleasure of working with Olivier Deheurles, CTO and co-founder of Adaptive. I didn't work with him, but Shaun Laurens, author of Aeron Cookbook, which later became Aeron Docs also works at Adaptive. After I worked there, Adaptive went on to acquire Martin's company Real Logic in 2022, gaining the expertise of both Martin and Todd Montgomery. Aeron is now owned and operated by Adaptive Financial Consulting, which is the go-to place for Aeron training and consultancy.

TransFICC

I also worked at TransFICC, providing integrations with Fixed Income venues and developing other Fixed Income related systems. Again, this was using Aeron and Aeron Cluster.

Contact

Contact me at theaeronfiles@stablecode.co.uk