He is of course the former Goldman Sachs programmer, alleged to have stolen a batch of the bank’s proprietary trading code.
But he is also a man with a LinkedIn profile.
Some extracts:
Serge Aleynikov’s Summary
An IT/IS professional with over 15 years of experience in building robust, reliable and intelligent software solutions for financial and telecommunications industries. Specializing in architecture and implementation of massively concurrent low-latency, highly available distributed systems in the area of high-frequency trading. • Strong hands-on skills in design and implementation of distributed mission-critical systems (involving proprietary and commercial messaging, queuing, lock-free concurrent computation, replication, and database components) processing billions of dollars in annual revenues.
• Knowledge of mature technologies that give a five-fold increase in quality and productivity of development, while significantly reducing implementation time.
• Strong analytical skills with proven track record of proactive problem solving.
• Practical knowledge of full life cycle system design and development using agile project management principles.
• Expert knowledge of relational/hierarchical database management systems.
• Proven achievements in on-time and on-budget delivery of system solutions to complex business requirements.
• Team-oriented with excellent interpersonal communication skills, and a motivational leader and mentor with a reputation for integrity, reliability, and quality.And a description of what he was doing at Goldman:
VP, Equity Strategy
Goldman Sachs (Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
• Lead development of a distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading (HFT) platform. The main objective was to engineer a very low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy, and order submission engine. The system was obtaining multicast market data from Nasdaq, Arca/NYSE, CME and running trading algorithms with low latency requirements responsive to changes in market conditions.
• Implemented a real-time monitoring solution for the distributed trading system using a combination of technologies (SNMP, Erlang/OTP, boost, ACE, TibcoRV, real-time distributed replicated database, etc) to monitor load and health of trading processes in the mother-ship and co-located sites so that trading decisions can be prioritized based on congestion and queuing delays.
• Responsible for development of real-time market feed handlers, order processing engines and trading tools at a Quantitative Equity Trading revenue-making HFT desk.And a recommendation from a Goldman co-worker:
“Serge is one of the best and the friendliest developers I had opportunity to work with. He not only has very broad knowledge of various software technologies but also a strong ability to optimally apply each to the problem at hand. His expertise in networking and distributed computing is top notch. I was truly impressed by his innovative software solutions, showing excellent software design skills and effectiveness of implementation. Serge displays a lot of enthusiasm in his work and is very eager to share his knowledge with others.”
Indeed.
Related link:
The Great Goldman Black Box Heist - FT Alphaville
Building a non-blocking TCP servers using OTP principles - Serge Aleynikov
Russian arrested for allegedly stealing Goldman’s secret trading formula - Clusterstock
