Alex Kachanov
Associate Director
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolAlex Kachanov is an Associate Director and seasoned Java engineer with 18+ years of experience building low-latency, front-office trading systems and enterprise integrations across APAC and global markets. He specializes in high-performance Core Java (zero-GC, multithreaded) order management and exchange connectivity using FIX, native protocols, JMS/EMS and JNI, with hands-on DevOps and L2 production support. Alex has delivered market connectivity and algorithmic trading modules for major banks, led performance engineering for co-located trading platforms, and currently architects a distributed, zero-garbage equities OMS at UBS. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs server-side Java EE and database expertise with client-side HTML/JavaScript UI work and pragmatic QA/CD practices. Based in Kawasaki, Japan, he combines trader-facing product sensibility with deep systems engineering, and his linguistic background (Masters in English and French linguistics) underpins strong communication with international teams.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Lingustics, English and French Languages, Master of Lingustics, English and French Languages at Minski Dzjaržauny Lingvistyèny Universitet
Russian, English, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
intel10
redhat10
trading10
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javaee10
http10
linux10
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hardware10
java10
tomcat10
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rhel10
paper10
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexkachanov/testinggit
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
alexkachanov/simpleFIXClient
Aug 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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