Alexander Nasonov
Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Nasonov is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years' experience specializing in C++, C, Boost, and systems work on NetBSD and Linux. Based in London, he brings high-frequency trading and low-latency systems expertise from senior roles at Citadel Securities, Tower Research, Jump Trading and Goldman Sachs. A long-time NetBSD hobbyist developer, he pairs production-grade finance engineering with deep open-source OS familiarity—an uncommon blend that informs robust, portable system design. His career spans both hands-on C++ development and technical leadership across major global financial firms, and he has a track record of delivering reliable, performance-critical software. Trained at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he quietly combines academic grounding with practical engineering across challenging, real-time environments.
26 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Github Skills (171)
libgit210
amqp-client10
prometheus-exporter10
hash-functions10
redis-client10
collectd10
cvs10
latency10
golang10
hash10
netbsd10
boost10
src10
digest10
metrics-server10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xmmswap/misc-x86-assembly
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
alnsn/rgph
Jan 2000 - Apr 2018
Contributions:361 commits, 118 pushes in 18 years 6 months
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