Alex Zakotyansky
Software Developer - VP at Citi
Marlboro Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zakotyansky is a seasoned software developer and VP with 9+ years focused on building low-latency, high-throughput trading and surveillance systems from the ground up. He architects and implements real-time engines, market data loaders, and OMS components in Java—regularly optimizing for GC-free throughput and handling hundreds of thousands of messages per second. His hands-on expertise spans custom data structures, non-blocking NIO, Disruptor ring buffers, Protobuf/Protostuff optimizations, and a wide array of market protocols (ITCH, OUCH, FIX, Level2+). At firms like NASDAQ, Citi and Tradition he delivered production systems that enforce regulatory surveillance rules and drive FX/Equities/Options execution with microsecond sensitivities. Beyond shipping core engines, he designs test frameworks and latency-injection tools to validate correctness under extreme load—an engineer who pairs deep algorithmic craft with practical production diligence.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (80)
maze10
multiclass-classification9
transfer-learning9
tabular9
optimization9
backend9
prediction9
gluon9
meta-learning9
gmm9
forecasting9
image-text9
structured-data9
reinforcement-learning9
mlp9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fif911/kubernetes-front-end-backend-example
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Simple React frontend and FastAPI backend with Postgres database containerized in Kubernetes and deployed to Google Cloud Platform and Microk8s
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 64 commits in 2 months
containersdockercontainerizationk8skubernetes
fif911/desing_patterns
Jun 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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