Roman Zalov
Software Engineer at ParaFi Capital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Zalov is a software engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance trading and consumer web systems, currently contributing to ParaFi Capital after roles at Chicago Trading Company and DRW. He blends a rare background as a former derivatives trader with hands-on full‑stack skills (JS, Python, React, Node, Django), having supported Legacy.com at scale for 50M monthly unique visitors. Roman's experience spans low-latency trading infrastructure and user-facing applications, enabling him to bridge finance and product engineering effectively. Based in Chicago, he pairs pragmatic engineering with domain knowledge in finance, and is pursuing further graduate study in computer science to deepen his systems and research chops.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at DePaul UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (3)
testing3
chai3
unit-testing2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
romanzalov/CSC-394-Recipe-App
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
The-Imports/graceshopper
Apr 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 5 months
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