• Design, develop, and optimize institutional-grade network and market data systems at scale.
• Drive the architecture of high-performance, distributed platforms that power Talos’ & Coin Metrics' digital asset data infrastructure.
• Build and refine big data pipelines, ensuring reliability, low latency, and scalability to meet the demands of global institutional clients.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver resilient, fault-tolerant systems and accelerate feature delivery.
• Leverage deep expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud-scale design to advance Talos’ mission of connecting the institutional digital asset ecosystem.

What I've done:

• Implemented Coin Metrics Data Downloader (download.coinmetrics.io).
• Actively participated in a successful large-scale datacenter migration.
• Built a strategy for almost infinite and cost-efficient data storage scaling.
• Implemented usage-based billing for Coin Metrics API.
• Increased my own and colleagues' engineering performance by using AI technologies.

What I've done as a VP of Engineering:

• Designed the foundation architecture of Coin Metrics' distributed systems.
• Created "Chain Monitor" Coin Metrics product (FARUM).
• Establishing various company-wide architectural standards, reliability guidelines, API design specifications, common libraries, and services to maintain consistency between different projects and teams.
• Software engineering and scaling strategy, making architectural decisions.
• Software engineering oversight, reducing the complexity, and increasing economic efficiency and maintainability of solutions.
• Incident prediction, resolving, and troubleshooting.
• Scaling engineering org structure, interviewing candidates, motivating and mentoring technical leaders.
• Got EB-1A/Extraordinary Ability (US) & Global Talent (UK) visas and ultimately moved to Boston.
• Developed the next-generation specialized distributed database and high-performant query engine to work with terabytes of market data.
• Integrated AI with Coin Metrics data without using external LLM APIs.
• Contributed to the successful acquisition of Coin Metrics by Talos in a deal valued at over $100 million.

What I've done as a Lead Software Engineer (till Jan 2021):

• Created a highly loaded, distributed, and reliable Coin Metrics API (API v4).
• Created an Access Management System for the API (AMS API).
• Created a Universal Blockchain Explorer API (ATLAS API).
• Created a distributed rate-limiting system for the API.