Vitaliia Ioffe is a commodities eTrading Python developer and DevOps-focused automation engineer with seven years of experience building and maintaining low-latency trading stacks—from exchange connectivity and OMS to pricing and CI/CD. Currently an AVP at Citi, she blends hands-on backend Python development with SDET discipline and production-grade DevOps, having improved build pipelines and cross-distro package publishing for notable open-source projects like Tarantool. Her background in applied mathematics and computer science (MSU) and ongoing PhD work in Finance & AI at Tel Aviv University give her a strong quantitative edge for algorithmic trading and model-driven automation. She has international experience across London, Moscow and Tel Aviv and a side interest in investment analysis, reflecting a rare mix of trading systems engineering, research-level analytics, and operational reliability.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Finance & AI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Finance & AI at Tel Aviv University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Bar-Ilan University
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Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
Contributions:123 reviews, 57 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vitaliia primarily contributed to improving the CI/CD pipeline and build processes, automating package publishing and managing dependencies for different operating system distributions. They modified build configurations, specifically focusing on supporting new Fedora and Ubuntu releases. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to uninitialized variables in the build process. Their work involved updating build scripts and release workflows to align with new publishing policies.
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