Valerii Ovchinnikov
Executive Director - Head Of PayCore at Unlimit
Belgrade Metropolitan Area Serbia
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Top SchoolValerii Ovchinnikov is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high‑scale, low‑latency trading and payments platforms for fintech and banking (Yandex, Revolut, Raiffeisen, Deutsche Bank). He has repeatedly taken greenfield projects to production—co‑building a PSP that processes hundreds of transactions per second and architecting Russia’s first autonomous OTC FX options venue delivered in nine months. Valerii scales teams and systems in tandem, growing Yandex Payments from two engineers into three autonomous teams while keeping >99.9% uptime across 50+ markets. He blends deep technical expertise in Java, Go and C++ with product and roadmap ownership, risk systems design and distributed reliability patterns. A proven mentor and cross‑functional leader, he has shepherded engineers into senior IC and tech‑lead roles and led complex replatforming and international expansion efforts. Based in Belgrade and open to Director/VP roles, he pairs a rigorous MIPT applied‑math background with hands‑on delivery across quant and payments domains.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Econometrics and Quantitative Finance, Econometrics and Quantitative Finance at Higher School of Economics-, Computer Science, -, Computer Science at Yandex School of Data AnalysisAccordion player, Music, Accordion player, Music at Ufa School of Music №7Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Data Mining In Action
Russian, English, Serbian
Github Skills (10)
sampling9
glibc8
perf8
cpu7
heap7
in-memory6
garbage-collector6
java6
garbage-collection2
deep-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
krems/nv_center_modelling
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
krems/os_exercises
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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