Leonid Merkin-janson
Professor, Head Of Financial Mathematics And Financial Technologies Department
Adler, Krasnodar, Russia
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Top SchoolLeonid Merkin-janson is a professor and head of Financial Mathematics and Financial Technologies with 12 years of industry and academic leadership, currently directing MSc, PhD and R&D programs at Sirius University and teaching advanced modules in stochastic processes, interest rate models and high-frequency trading platforms. He combines deep quantitative finance expertise across interest rates, FX, equities and commodities with hands-on systems experience building UHFT platforms and trading infrastructure in C++, Erlang/OTP and real-time Linux. His career spans senior roles at banks and prop shops—Goldman Sachs, Credit Agricole, RBS, Alfa-Bank and WorldQuant—where he led global quant teams and developed production-grade analytics libraries and market-making strategies. He also led academic program creation and research in formally-verified distributed ledger technologies and financial computing, bridging rigorous mathematics (PhD, TU Delft, cum laude) with practical fintech engineering. Notably, he has moved technology from startup to bank acquisition and integrated functional programming techniques into quantitative R&D workflows. Based in Adler, Russia, he blends top-tier academic credentials with a proven track record of shipping low-latency trading systems and curriculum-level innovation.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Distinction -- 100%, MSc, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Distinction -- 100% at Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT)TU Delft
Russian
Github Skills (1)
cpp5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
saleyn/utxx
May 2014 - Aug 2015
C++ Utility Library
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cppcpp20c-plus-plusheader-onlycpp17
saleyn/archlinux
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
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