Serge Aleynikov

Past

• VP, Equity Strategy at Goldman Sachs
• Director, Routing R&D at IDT Corp
• Lead Development Engineer at IDT Corp

• President, Sr. Technical Director at Orbit Communications & Networking Dimension
• Teaching Assistant Neuroelectric Systems at Rutgers University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
• Systems Programmer at Rutgers University, LCSR Computing Facility, Advanced Computing Applications
• Computer Operator at John F. Kennedy Medical Center
• Application Programmer at Railroad Consolidated Computer Center, Moscow, Russia

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Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
• Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineering (MIIT)

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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 areas of high-frequency trading and telecom.

• 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.

Serge Aleynikov’s Experience

• VP, Equity Strategy

  Goldman Sachs

  (Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)

  May 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 2 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.

• Director, Routing R&D

  IDT Corp

  (Public Company; IDT; Telecommunications industry)

  December 1998 — April 2007 (8 years 5 months)

  Work as a principal systems architect and hands-on R&D team lead for medium/large scale Telecommunications routing systems in VoIP and SS7 networks. The routing systems targeted taking advantage of hourly changing termination rates of over 600 carriers to thousands of destinations in order to ensure best utilization of capacity at lowest rates for the purpose of increasing company's gross profit. Responsible for Prototyping, Project Management, System Software Engineering, Technical Analysis, Database Design and Implementation. Delivered turn-key systems to operational teams that offered 24x7 fault-tolerant operations with over 99,999% of annual uptime achieved through hardware and software redundancy implemented at 1-5 OSI layers. The systems were designed to stay in the call path of IDT's networks with sustaining throughput of over 40M transactions per day and processing over one billion dollars in annual revenues.

• Lead Development Engineer

  IDT Corp

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IDT; Telecommunications industry)

  December 1998 — July 2006 (7 years 8 months)

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• President, Sr. Technical Director

  Orbit Communications & Networking Dimension

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 3 months)

  Responsible for Software Engineering, Technical Analysis, Planning, and Implementation. The company specialized in telecommunications consulting services for small and mid-size businesses.

• Teaching Assistant Neuroelectric Systems

  Rutgers University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  September 1995 — July 1996 (11 months)

  • Designed statistical analysis software for Medical Image processing.
  • Implemented wavelet & fft feature extraction techniques for Image Analysis, and a Modular Neural Network approach based on the ALOPEX algorithm.
  • Developed educational and scientific software to automate a variety of algorithms in Neuroelectric science.

• Systems Programmer

  Rutgers University, LCSR Computing Facility, Advanced Computing Applications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  August 1993 — August 1995 (2 years 1 month)

  • Designed statistical analysis software for Web traffic reporting.
  • System programming in C/Perl on UNIX.
  • CGI programming for the University's World Wide Web server (C/Perl).

• Computer Operator

  John F. Kennedy Medical Center

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Medical Practice industry)

  February 1991 — July 1993 (2 years 6 months)

  Responsible for the operation of the Medical Center's mainframe (MV-20.000), mini¬computer (AS/400), and micro¬computer equipment.
  Daily responsibilities included:
  • Initiate, monitor and ensure smooth completion of daily runs on the Financial System.
  • Produce bills, reports and other system output.
  • Update system with new versions and utilities, and perform daily backups.

• Application Programmer

  Railroad Consolidated Computer Center, Moscow, Russia

  (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  September 1988 — August 1990 (2 years )

  Internship work in a team of applied mathematicians and computer scientists on a project sponsored by the Ministry Of Transportation that involved optimizing train schedules based on known passenger transportation demand, train capacity, transportation costs, and other parameters with a goal of minimizing the number of trains required to serve geographic areas. Applications developed in C, PL/1, and CLIPPER.

Additional Information

Serge Aleynikov’s Interests:

Functional Programming. Concurrent Programming. Ballroom Dancing.

Serge Aleynikov’s Groups:

Publications:
• Micheli-Tzanakou, E., Aleynikov, S., "Visual Ophthalmologist - an Automated System for Classification of Retinal Damage", Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition. Feature Extraction and Computational Intelligence. Ch.9, pp.221-227,2000.ISBN 0-8493-2278-2.
• Aleynikov, S., and Micheli-Tzanakou, E., "Classification of Retinal Damage by a Neural Network Based System", Journal of Medical Systems,Vol.22,No.3,1998.
• Aleynikov, S., and Micheli-Tzanakou, E., "Visual Ophthalmologist - an Automated System for Classification of Retinal Damage", Proc. of Int. Conf. On Neural Networks,1997,pp.1120-1125,Nov,1996.
• Aleynikov, S., and Michelli-Tzanakou, E., "Modular Neural Networks based on the ALOPEX Algorithm", Proc. Of the 22nd IEEE Northeast BioEngineering Conf.,pp.121-122,1996.
• Aleynikov, S., and Micheli-Tzanakou, E., "Design and Implementation of Modular Neural Networks based on the ALOPEX Algorithm",Virtual Intelligence, Proc.,SPIE,v.2878,pp.81-93,Nov,1996.

•    Hedge Fund Group (HFG)
•    Hedge Fund Network
•    Electronic Trading Group
•    High Frequency Trading
•    Financial Engineering Group
•    Global Executive Exchange

Serge Aleynikov’s Honors:

Patents:
• 2005: STORM – global routing system for carrier networks (PCT WO2006/044862 A2, http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080198998)
• 2004: TrunkMon – system for monitoring trunk quality (Serial#: 11/024,672, pending).

Special training:
• 2006: INET Spectra Protocol Tester - Tektronix
• 2005: Telecom Engineer Training. Signaling System 7 – BitTech.
• 2005: Telecom Engineer Training. SIGTRAN – BitTech.
• 2004: Converged Services Platform – Excel.
• 2004: VoIP for the Converged Services Platform – Excel.

Certifications:
• 5/2000: Brainbench. Certified High IT Aptitude Performer (Certificate# 98071).
• 12/1999: Brainbench: Certified Web Programmer (Certificate# 98071).
• 11/1999: Brainbench: Certified C Programmer (Certificate# 98071).
• 10/1999: Tekmetrics. Certified Oracle Programmer (Certificate# 112445).
• 10/1999. Brainbench. Certified Master Delphi Programmer (Certificate# 98071).