Summary
Vasily Semenov is a seasoned software engineer and team lead with 13 years of experience building ultra-low-latency market data platforms and connectivity for major global exchanges. Based in Lisbon, he currently leads the Global Market Data Platform at BNP Paribas CIB, owning product lifecycle, stakeholder strategy, and a distributed team delivering normalized, enriched streams from 70+ exchanges. His deep C++ expertise is complemented by practical experience in networking, databases, protocol implementation and high-throughput streaming architectures. He founded and still maintains OpenRepos, a community-driven app repository with nearly 10 million downloads since 2014, demonstrating long-term product stewardship and open-source community building. Prior roles span Deutsche Bank and industrial real-time systems work where he designed fault-tolerant data acquisition and custom time-series databases for resource-constrained environments. He combines hands-on systems engineering with mentoring and process discipline to reliably ship low-latency, mission-critical infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Master, Computer Science, Incomplete Master, Computer Science at Государственный Университет - Высшая Школа Экономики / State University — Higher School of Economics
English, Russian