Summary
Alexander Karpenko is a software engineer with 13 years of experience and 8+ years focused on high-frequency trading and capital markets, most recently serving a garden-leave at IMC Trading in Amsterdam. He has built low-latency, high-throughput systems in Java (gc-free optimizations) and Python, including global profit-and-loss pipelines processing thousands of events per second and a trading configuration management platform used daily by traders. Across roles he has led small teams, shipped smart order routing and market connectors, coordinated cross-functional global projects, and mentored junior engineers. Comfortable in both research and production, he pairs deep performance engineering with pragmatic delivery—an unusual blend that has seen his work directly monetize client flows and support live trading desks.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Czech Technical University in Prague
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at ITMO University
Russian, English