Oleg Rabaev
Systems Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorOleg 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
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
doctest9
testing9
c-language9
cpp9
constexpr9
polymorphism8
metaprogramming7
ranges5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
orabaev/cppa2z
Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
Document modern C++ using unit tests
Contributions:313 commits, 4 PRs, 260 pushes in 4 years 9 months
cpptestingunitunit-testsmodern-c
orabaev/zman
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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