Andre Bar'yudin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Andre is a seasoned developer with over 20 years of hands-on experience with C++, C#, Java, Scala, Python, and more, together with fintech, investment banking, and algorithm trading experience. Andre speaks English, Hebrew, Russian, and some Spanish and is quite capable of working both on his own and in a multinational team.
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Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Linux, MacBook
The most amazing...
...software I've built is an order management system which served billions of dollars of daily trading in an investment bank.
Work Experience
Lead Trading Algorithm Developer
HSBC Hong Kong
- Worked on an algorithm trading benchmark platform for APAC.
- Designed and developed new strategies in Scala. Worked with the front desk to identify new requirements and potential problems.
- Fixed issues both in the trading engine as well as in the infrastructure.
Trading Algorithm Developer
Credit Suisse
- Contributed to an algorithm trading engine, providing services to the firm's prime brokerage arm involving billions of USD of daily volume.
- Worked on automated testing solutions, including exchange simulators.
- Collaborated with traders and other front-office stakeholders to design and develop solutions.
.NET/Java Developer
Chronicle Software
- Developed a .NET API for Chronicle Map, a distributed storage engine.
- Fixed bugs and developed new features for the Chronicle software components.
- Provided support for the end clients with their design and usage issues.
Lead Developer and Architect
Fintech Startup
- Proposed the overall design and detailed technical architecture for a brand new trading system. Wrote the initial implementation of the system from scratch.
- Implemented the main components of the said system, such as the OMS, trading strategies, market data, and brokerage links.
- Implemented a backtesting framework and the trading GUI.
Quantitative Analytics Developer
Barclays Capital
- Developed and supported new features in BC's massive rewrite of the quantitative libraries (QA) responsible for pricing, risk, modeling, and more., across all asset groups.
- Implemented testing strategies to improve the library's reliability.
- Liaised with the relevant business people to spec out and implement new features.
Algo Trading Developer
Morgan Stanley
- Developed and supported the algorithmic trading platform at Morgan Stanley. Standard benchmark algorithms (VWAP, ArrivalPrice, PercentageOfVolume, TargetClose etc.), crossing engines, dark pools/dark liquidity. All engines are written in C++, running on 64-bit Linux.
- Built the system to handle special market conditions (auctions, restriction/compliance rules, limited trading duration, and special trading days) and special data (tick sizes, lot sizes, and market data conditions).
- Ensured that the system could handle user-specific requirements for special engine behavior.
- Implemented automated regression testing (C++, Perl, Python) and backtesting (Python).
- Conducted various scripting activities for testing, deployment and support purposes (Python, Perl).
FX Trading Developer
Standard Chartered
- Developed the FX trading platform (green field development). Utilized complex code generation, message serialization, message exchange via Solace, and centralized caching and persistence. Featured FX spot, forwards, and swaps.
Smart Order Routing Developer
Credit Suisse
- Deeply involved in developing the SOR for equity world. Main focus on European markets.
Algorithmic Trading Team Lead
Barclays Capital
- Provided technical and administrative leadership to a team of four direct reports, all developers.
- Managed the ex-Lehman integration project (LMX/BARX algos merge).
- Led the SOR (smart order router) development and deployment in Europe.
- Oversaw the ex-Lehman market data component integration and in-house MD development.
- Created functionality, stability, and performance improvements in algorithmic trading and exchange connectivity components of the proprietary trading platform (XTP). Provided front-office support, including solving live trading issues.
- Developed core algorithmic components (C++), including a multi-threaded application for order processing. Overall performance increased at least tenfold, with some critical paths gaining even higher improvements.
- Worked on improving different aspects of basket trading (FTSE, S&P500 and other indices), including some GUI work and server-side performance analysis and fixes.
- Developed specific trading algorithms (C#), trading GUIs (C#), and other applications. Worked on VWAP, Pairs trader, and other algorithms.
- Liaised with traders and other business-side colleagues for requirements gathering, definition, implementation, and live trading support.
- Supported and extended a shared in-process market data component (Reuters, Wombat, internal feeds) with COM+ and .NET interface (Interop). Performed market microstructure development.
Developer
Rule Financial Ltd.
- Contributed to the Deutsche Bank Autobahn project, including design and development of an interface between a derivatives/FI trading platform and Excel.
- Created a solution based on a multithreaded data loader module implemented in VC++ using Boost libraries, XLL API and Excel COM+ automation for call-back infrastructure.
- Involved in Beauchamp Financial Technology Ltd. (software house for hedge funds) FIX tools design and development.
- Built a prototype for .NET OO API to TDP (Trading Platform System) using UML and initial implementation.
Senior Software Developer
FIS Software Ltd.
- Developed the pensions and investments administration version of ALIS for Fidelity, individual risk and investment version for Capital Alliance (SA). FIS is a leading financial software development company. ALIS is FIS' all-in-one solution which manages the entire policy administration lifecycle of all life insurance, pensions and investment products.
- Designed and implemented new business processes, bug fixing, and support for existing modules.
- Introduced new technologies and approaches into the project as well as fixing some long outstanding major problems in crucial places in the code.
- Developed the existing MQ infrastructure. Introduced configurable log4j-like logging into the system.
- Dealt with a Unix build environment, porting code between Unix and Windows platforms, stability, and quality of the Unix port.
- Delivered lectures, training, and help documents in the fields of my expertise to colleagues.
Senior Software Developer
Ministry of Finance [Israel]
- Conducted software development in the e-Government Internet security team (TEHILA project).
- Involved in the full development life cycle, supervising a team of 1-2 junior developers.
- Designed and developed a highly secure web site for the US government loan guarantees on-line auction.
- Developed a framework for incident tracking and intrusion detection, with data mining abilities and abuse mail system (Java/Perl/PHP), multi-lingual interface, and heavy usage of XML/XSLT. Handled a very large database of processed log data (more than 50G per year) in Oracle and then in MS SQL.
- Oversaw specifications and design of the e-Government project for on-line forms server, which should give the citizens an opportunity to fill various official forms via Internet.
- Reviewed and hardened websites from a security point of view.
- Developed a highly scalable website for the municipal elections results (C# and Office/OWC API).
- Developed an internal web interface to a local paging services provider.
- Conducted complex administration tasks, including installation of databases (Unix/Windows), Apache and IIS HTTP servers, Tomcat servlets engine, mail servers, and more. Adminstrated MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Developed mail filters and system scripts in Perl.
- Designed and implemented an application for prevention of mail bombing in C++ for Sendmail (MILTER API). The filter handles hundreds of thousands of e-mails per day.
- Implemented other applications for internal usage: data parsing and analysis (Java/Perl/C++/SQL), management console for event logging, and control of a large computer farm (Java/J2EE) with multi-lingual interface.
Software Engineer
The Hebrew University [Israel]
- Contributed to Phase 2 of the BioGIS project (see below).
- Evaluated technology and general design. Developed the new system using Java servlets on Tomcat, XML/XSLT, ArcIMS 4.x, and ArcSDE, with emphasis on security, functionality, extensibility, and multi-lingual support.
- Developed the PhotoGIS site (Apache/PHP/MS SQL/ArcIMS 4.x/ArcSDE) with web access to the HUJI photo archive with GIS functionality, with a back-end application for data entry.
- Set up the system and database, including Windows 2000, Apache HTTP server, Tomcat servlet engine, and MS SQL server.
Senior Unix Administrator and Software Consultant
EZFace, Ltd.
- Created the first version of the company's website, local and remote IT infrastructure, system design, and setup tasks.
- Designed, developed, and set up the company's IT infrastructure and internal protocols.
- Administrated Linux servers, including Apache installations, configurations, and tuning, QMail, SSH, PHP, and MySQL, including configuration, administration, etc. Developed necessary Perl/shell system scripts and mail filters.
- Resolved hosting issues with US-based providers, including troubleshooting, remote installations, configuration, and administration of web servers.
- Recruited new employees for the company, including interviews and practical tests.
Senior Software Developer
The Hebrew University [Israel]
- Developed BioGIS, a GIS-based web project. The project's goal was to provide an easy access to numerous bio-diversity data sets, assembled by the university and external research.
- Developed the site in PHP, utilizing HTML/DHTML/CSS, and MS SQL server as the database back-end.
- Customized the GIS viewer, implemented as a Java applet.
- Developed and modified Avenue scripts for the ArcView IMS server.
Software Developer
Prudence Software Ltd.
- Developed and supported a large software project written in Visual C++ in the field of electro-simulation tools (electron gun calculations, laser scattering, etc.) Improved performance and memory utilization of the central mesh building algorithm by applying a more suitable numerical method for LU decomposition. Developed the existing end-user interface (MS VC++, MFC) and its interconnections with other parts of the software.
Experience
Chronicle OpenHFT
https://github.com/OpenHFTAlgo Trading Platform for a Crypto Startup
The project is already live and trading with real client money.
Skills
Languages
C++, C#, Java, SQL, Python, Scala, PHP, JavaScript, XML, Excel VBA, C++11, C++14, ALGO, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Scheme, F#, HTML, HTML5, Perl, Kotlin, Python 3, Rust
Frameworks
Django, .NET, Play Framework, Boost, JNI, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Scrapy, Qt, AngularJS, ZeroGC
Paradigms
Functional Programming, Concurrent Programming, Automated Testing, COM+
Platforms
Ubuntu Linux, Linux, cAlgo, Windows, Oracle, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solaris
Other
Takes, FIX Protocol, Investment Banking, Electronic Trading, Solace, Qmail, Memory Management, Multithreading, Excel Add-ins, Trading, Wagtail CMS, Fintech, Architecture, UDP, TCP/IP, SSH, Scraping, Microsoft 365, MacBook, Computer Science
Industry Expertise
High-frequency Trading (HFT), Banking & Finance
Storage
MySQL, Kdb+, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL
Libraries/APIs
Standard Template Library (STL), Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, Amazon EC2 API, Django ORM, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, GitHub, Apache HTTP Server, GIS, CVS, Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual C++, GCC, MQSeries, Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Excel, Excel-DNA, Subversion (SVN), Emacs, Vim Text Editor, TeamCity, Git
Education
M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel
B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel
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