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Ilya Panov

@ilyapanov

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C++/Rust developer focused on low-latency trading and performance-critical backend systems for finance.

Russian Federation

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team building low-latency trading and financial infrastructure. I want ownership of performance-critical backend systems—market data pipelines, distributed services, and reliability-focused engineering—where careful systems work makes measurable impact.

I build high-performance backend systems in C++ and Rust for trading and financial infrastructure, with an emphasis on low-latency market data pipelines, distributed services, and performance-critical engineering. I’m especially focused on trading infrastructure where micro-latency and reliability directly impact outcomes.

In my current role as a Trading Systems Engineer, I automated swap reporting by building C++ services to aggregate and normalize LP data, cutting processing time by ~40 minutes. I’ve also reduced symbol-mapping lookup latency to O(1) by introducing an in-memory cache and improved pipeline stability—alongside implementing an adaptive markup algorithm that increased daily swap revenue by 7–10%.

Previously, as a C++ Developer, I designed a graph-based AML algorithm for a crypto payment system, using wallet-to-wallet transaction flows to flag suspicious clusters via graph traversal and connected-component analysis. I also build and test protocol-aware infrastructure—e.g., my Rust project tickchaos, a deterministic UDP proxy with seeded fault injection and a zero-copy hot path.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Tickchaos UDP Proxy

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Tickchaos

Jul 2026 - Present (0 months)

Built a protocol-aware UDP proxy to test market data feed handler resilience (NASDAQ ITCH/MoldUDP64) under network degradation. Implemented a deterministic fault-injection engine and a zero-copy hot path, keeping p99 overhead under 50 µs verified via Criterion benchmarks.

Rust Tokio UDP Protocol Aware Packet Handling Duplication Proptest GitHub Actions

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Trading Systems Engineer

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MXTM

Apr 2026 - Present (3 months)

Built C++ services to automate swap reporting by aggregating and normalizing LP data, reducing processing time by ~40 minutes. Reduced symbol-mapping lookup latency to O(1) and removed database dependency using an in-memory cache, and implemented an adaptive markup algorithm that increased daily swap revenue by 7–10% (~$30–50/day).

C++Low Latency Systems Data Aggregation Data Normalization Symbol Mapping

C++ Developer

UBC.One

Oct 2025 - Apr 2026 (6 months)

Designed a graph-based AML algorithm for a crypto payment system by modeling wallet-to-wallet transaction flows as a graph and flagging suspicious clusters via graph traversal and connected-component analysis. Reduced peak latency of a real-time system by 96% (985 µs → 37 µs) using lock-free algorithms and CRTP and optimizing cache locality.

C++AML Graph Traversal Connected Component Analysis Real Time Systems

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

T-Bank Academy

Industrial Software Development (Java/Backend), Industrial Software Development

2025 -

Enrolled in the Industrial Software Development (Java/Backend) program. Focuses on Java backend and industrial software development skills and is ongoing since September 2025.