Valentin Palade
Software Engineer at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Palade is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency C++ systems across Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Android and iOS. He has driven core market-data gateway architecture and performance work at LSEG, including FX and exchange feeds, and has a strong track record in multi-threaded, distributed and cross-platform engineering. Valentin pairs deep systems-level expertise (memory allocators, networking, IPC, FIX/SBE, encryption) with practical delivery skills—unit testing, pcaps-based validation and CI/CD—to ensure robust production behavior. He has led teams, mentored engineers, conducted technical interviews and established code and build standards that improved testability and performance. Notably, he contributed research-grade work on elastic memory allocation (memgrow) enabling legacy apps to scale horizontally, revealing a penchant for solving low-level scalability problems. Based in Bucharest, he is focused on roles that value professionalism and code quality while continuing to build reliable, performance-sensitive software.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
database-access10
relational10
async10
io-uring10
cmake10
cross-platform10
aio10
client-server10
sql10
atomic10
rdbms10
database-management10
cpp10
high-performance10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vipalade/bubbles
Oct 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:125 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 2 months
solidoss/solidframe
Jan 2008 - Jan 2023
Cross-platform C++ framework for asynchronous, distributed applications.
Contributions:9 releases, 2038 commits, 68 PRs in 15 years 3 months
cppasynchronouscmakeconcurrencydistributed-applications
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