Sacha Best
Head Of Systems & Applications, Fixed Income And Macro
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSacha Best is a commercial technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling systems for high-performance trading and research, currently leading Systems & Applications for Fixed Income and Macro at Citadel. He combines hands-on engineering roots—spanning cloud strategy, distributed compute, trade lifecycle, risk systems, and visualization—with a track record of developing high-impact teams and strategic roadmaps. Prior roles include managing global fixed income engineering, driving cloud and data strategy for a major fund, and building compliance and analytics platforms at Bloomberg. Early career work at SpaceX and Disney shows a knack for pragmatic innovation, from VR visualizations to persuading large teams to adopt Typescript. He teaches and co-founded Penn’s VR/AR group, reflecting a persistent interest in immersive tech and developer education. Sacha is based in New York and known for translating market-facing problems into production-grade, future-proof technology investments.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard-Westlake SchoolBSE Computer Science / Computer Graphics, BSE Computer Science / Computer Graphics at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, Persian
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Github Skills (110)
javascript10
python-interface10
android10
ios10
react-native10
ethereum10
blockchain10
react10
protocol-buffers9
protobuf9
swift9
web3py9
microfrontend9
p2p9
redux9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sachabest/sachabest.github.io
May 2016 - Dec 2024
Personal Website
Contributions:46 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 8 months
react
sachabest/cis568
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 36 commits, 30 pushes in 20 days
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