Summary
Yakov Konovalchukov is a seasoned C/C++ developer with 11 years specializing in low-latency, high-throughput network and trading systems. He has hands-on experience building Intel DPDK kernel-bypass connectors, ultra-fast exchange adapters, and real-time metrics engines for latency and traffic measurement. His background spans DSP optimizations, stateful DPDK load balancers, lock-free data structures and clever memory layouts (sparse arrays, intrusive storage) used to track order books and sessions at scale. Yakov combines systems-level performance tuning (CPU-clock accurate timing, vectorized code) with practical protocol work (WebSockets, REST, custom exchange protocols), and has applied FPGA and kernel-bypass techniques in R&D. Based in Budva, Montenegro, he brings both telecom/DSP and financial-exchange experience, an uncommon cross-domain fluency that enables end-to-end low-latency solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Russian, English, Serbian, Japanese