Alexandros Kyriakakis
Engineering Team Lead Trading, Algo & Compliance at Alpaca
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolAlexandros Kyriakakis is an engineering team lead specializing in trading, algorithmic systems and compliance with six years of hands-on experience building low-latency, event-driven distributed services for financial markets. He progressed from individual contributor roles to leading Alpaca’s Trading, Algo & Compliance engineering team after delivering B2B crypto trading platforms and automated trading systems at tradias. A competitive programmer at heart, he applies algorithmic optimization and theoretical analysis to production problems, balancing rigorous design with pragmatic delivery. Comfortable across the stack, he has designed and shipped 20+ high-performance microservices and maintains an active GitHub focused on financial services tooling. Based in Athens, he pairs strong academic foundations from NTUA with practical startup and product-oriented experience, often bridging research-style problem solving with production constraints.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
8.02/10 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8.02/10 Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English
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Github Skills (92)
quickfix10
trading10
pyplot10
automated-trading10
fixprotocol10
attestation10
crypto10
go-client10
sec10
alpaca10
api10
recurly10
sdk10
financial-markets10
edgar10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alpacahq/alpacadecimal
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in go. Similar and compatible with shopspring's decimal.Decimal, but optimized for Alpaca's data sets.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 1 PR in 2 years
data-setssimilararbitrary-precisionprecisiondecimal
AlexandrosKyriakakis/QueuingSystems
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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