Summary
Aleksey Covacevice is a Head of Development and systems programming specialist with two decades of deep C/C++ and x86 assembly expertise, focused on low-level optimization and high-performance backend architectures. He has built ultra-low-latency execution cores and market data systems for trading — including FPGA-accelerated arbitrage engines and matching engines achieving millions of executions per second — serving major banks, hedge funds and exchanges. A long-time derivatives trader with hands-on experience in options, futures, perps and yield strategies, he combines trading instincts with production-grade engineering to deliver profitable, resilient systems. As a co-founder and former CTO in web3 and fintech startups, he navigates product, regulatory and growth-stage challenges while remaining intensely technical. Based in São Paulo, he brings a rare mix of hardware, firmware and software fluency from FPGA/VHDL to Python and Node.js, and an unusual history of squeezing 100x performance gains out of legacy market-data stacks. He seeks seed and growth-stage opportunities where fundamental trading insight and systems-level performance can create differentiated business value.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Associate's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Escola SENAI Armando de Arruda Pereira
Associate's degree, General Studies, Associate's degree, General Studies at Colégio Objetivo ABC
Mathematics, Mathematics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Polish, Portuguese, English, German, Latin