Ilia Pertsev
Quantitative Developer
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Pertsev is a Quantitative Developer based in the Netherlands with 11 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant trading and data platforms. He designed and implemented a distributed MFT trading platform at Tower Research Capital and previously led core platform services, ML data storage, and big-data ETL systems across fintech and telecom projects. Skilled in Kotlin, Java, Spark, Kafka and cloud-native tooling, he bridges low-latency quantitative systems and robust backend engineering while mentoring and hiring engineers. Ilia also contributes to high-profile open-source crypto privacy tooling—making core smart contract changes to Tornado Cash—bringing a security-researcher’s attention to correctness and cryptographic primitives. His background in financial research and engineering gives him a rare combination of quantitative rigor and production-grade systems design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Financial management, Financial management at Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and EconomicsEngineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at ITMO University
Russian, English
Github Skills (7)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
merkle-tree10
blockchain10
truffle9
testing7
javascript7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tornadocash/tornado-core
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Tornado cash. Non-custodial private transactions on Ethereum.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 128 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ilia appears to be contributing to the core smart contract logic of Tornado Cash, a non-custodial privacy protocol. Their commits involve modifications to the MerkleTreeWithHistory.sol contract, adding test cases, and integrating MiMC hashing. These changes are focused on the core mechanics of the Tornado Cash system.
ethereumblockchainsubgraphtornadoprivate-transactions
pertsev/web3_utilz
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Useful snippets of js code for interacting with Smart Contracts
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ethereumjavascriptsnippetssoliditysmart-contracts
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