Summary
Oleg Rabaev is a systems software engineer in New York with 10+ years building high-performance C++ systems for financial trading, risk management, and in-memory databases. He currently contributes to Citadel Securities’ distributed monitoring platform and previously led real-time listed derivatives infrastructure at Bloomberg. Oleg’s background spans founding startups and product-focused consulting work, giving him a rare blend of entrepreneurial ownership and production-grade engineering discipline. He cares deeply about software design, clean code, and testing, and has repeatedly delivered reusable libraries and low-latency systems in demanding markets. Notably, his career includes building OLAP engines, volatility servers, and FIX-based trading platforms—evidence of both breadth and a bias for solving hard latency and correctness problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who pairs rigorous engineering with hands-on implementation.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer