Luben Popov
Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuben Popov is an NYC-based software engineer with 10 years of experience building low-latency, real-time analytics for the derivatives market at Bloomberg using C++, Python, and Rust. He designs scalable distributed systems that ingest millions of ticks per second, leveraging Kafka, Cassandra, and Redis, and has pioneered application-level sharding and novel buffering strategies to maximize throughput. His background spans game engines, simulation, and robotics—he converted research Matlab into production-ready C# simulations and modeled drone swarm behavior for his master's thesis. Luben collaborates effectively with quants and researchers on AI and simulation projects, including Keras/TensorFlow work, and advocates for Rust as a safer alternative to C++ in performance-critical code. He has a strong foundation in mathematics and computer science (UT Austin BS, University of Houston MS) and a track record of pragmatic engineering that bridges research prototypes and production systems. Notably, he brings game-development performance tuning experience to financial systems, a blend that informs creative low-level optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinThe Woodlands College Park High School
Bulgarian, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
python2
computer-vision2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lpopov101/gmtk_game_jam_2021
May 2021 - Jun 2021
2021 GMTK Game Jam
Contributions:32 PRs, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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lpopov101/ProjectReset
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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