Kamil Salikhov
Head Of Research at pinely
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKamil Salikhov is Head of Research and co-owner at Pinely in Amsterdam, bringing nine years of experience building research-driven trading systems for high-frequency markets. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Pinely from team lead to head of research, blending hands-on modeling with strategic product direction. Trained as a mathematician and computer scientist (specialist, 4.9/5) and holding a PhD in Bioinformatics, he applies rigorous academic methods to quantitative finance problems. His background includes advanced data science training at Yandex School of Data Analysis, reflecting strong probabilistic and algorithmic foundations. Comfortable bridging research and production, he focuses on measurable performance gains in latency-sensitive systems. An uncommon thread in his profile is the cross-domain transfer of bioinformatics analytical techniques into high-frequency trading research.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Moscow State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Yandex School of Data AnalysisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
burrows-wheeler-transform10
phylogeny10
bacteria10
classifier10
metagenomics10
sequence9
deterministic9
mer7
transform4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
prophyle/prophex
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
ProPhex – an exact k-mer index using Burrows-Wheeler Transform
Contributions:27 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
transformindexburrows-wheeler-transformmerk-mer
prophyle/prophyle
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
Accurate, resource-frugal and deterministic DNA sequence classifier.
Contributions:159 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
sequencebacteriametagenomicsphylogenybwt
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