Alexis Balashov
Analyst at BlackRock
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexis Balashov is an analyst at BlackRock and a fourth-year Economics student at UC Berkeley who blends rigorous financial analysis with hands-on strategy experience across healthcare, tech, and public sectors. He has led campus consulting initiatives as President of the UC Berkeley Phoenix Consulting Group and scaled impact in healthcare startups like Health Engine, demonstrating a rare mix of client-facing strategy and operational leadership. Alexis also brings technical credibility from open-source backend contributions to the high-impact SPDK storage project, where he improved threading and NVMe over Fabrics functionality. Passionate about finance and investment, he pairs quantitative problem-solving with a track record of building teams and refining processes to drive transformation. Based in New York, he is focused on leveraging analytics and strategic insight to create measurable value in finance and beyond.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at University of California, BerkeleyNorthgate High School
Github Skills (11)
c1710
storage10
pdk10
sdk10
c1110
thread9
nvme9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily contributed to the SPDK project, focusing on storage performance enhancements and related infrastructure. Their commits include modifying the core threading library and event handling to allow for a configurable message pool size, improving flexibility. They addressed unit test failures and refined the test automation scripts. Additionally, the user made modifications to the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMF) code, introducing a new option to disable compare and advertising the compare command.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
BBazard/fourierscope
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:135 commits in 8 months
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