Summary
Alex Kozlenkov is a CTO and director with 16+ years building high-performance, data-driven platforms—specializing in Scala and enterprise Java for real-time and Big Data applications. He blends theoretical rigor (a master's in theoretical physics and over 30 published papers, including two in Nature) with hands-on engineering: designing distributed event processing networks, creating the Prova rule language, and shipping StreamBase- and Hadoop-based production systems. At TXODDS and previously Betfair he led R&D and architecture for real-time analytics, pricing engines and anomaly detection, favoring simple, statically-checked functional designs that scale. He is fluent in Scala, R and SQL (Impala), has solved notable discrete math challenges, and has a long history of turning advanced algorithms into industrial-strength solutions. Less obvious: his work spans pure mathematics tools like SageMath to practical actor- and OSGi-based deployments, bridging academic ideas and operational platforms.
16 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian