Summary
Lev Kargalov is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 8 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform C++ systems for finance, defense, and enterprise monitoring. He specializes in network development, metaprogramming, and highly loaded distributed systems, applying those skills to low-level Windows and Unix internals as well as modern CI/CD and container workflows. At Bloomberg he contributes to production-grade infrastructure projects, following earlier roles developing radar-station control software and large-scale corporate monitoring tools. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages Boost, Qt, ASIO, PostgreSQL, and automation with Python and GitLab CI to deliver reliable, secure services. Not obvious from titles alone, he blends malware analysis curiosity with systems programming rigor, which sharpens his threat-aware approach to resilient system design. Trained in programming engineering at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, he brings systematic problem solving and a bias for performance to complex, real-world systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, programming engineering, Bachelor's degree, programming engineering at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English