# Alex Lopatin

> Senior Software Engineer at Trading Technologies

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexlopatin

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Trading Technologies
Jan 2022 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Trading Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, IL

### Author @ Flashbot
Jan 2017 – Present | Chicago, IL
Flashbot is a "batteries included" Java/Scala library for building, simulating, and deploying HFT trading strategies on Cryptocurrency exchanges. It provides server components for easily building a cluster of market data servers that efficiently stream data to Flashbot strategies which compute algorithms and execute or simulate orders.

It's intended as a framework for building trading systems that operate at microsecond precision.

### Software Consultant @ Infix
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, IL

### Software Engineer @ Sift Science
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Our team ported a Backbone app to React. In addition to end-to-end feature development (Java/Dropwizard, JS), I worked on the front-end architecture for the app. Here are my thoughts on React (https://engineering.siftscience.com/best-practices-for-building-large-react-applications).

Also, I was part of the on-call rotation for Sift's AWS/HBase infrastructure.

### Software Development Intern @ Rdio
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Ported the Node.js PubSub server to support TLS
- Implemented "Logout Everywhere" feature for web, desktop, and mobile (Django, Node.js)
- Feature & bugs work for Rdio and Vdio

### Software Development Intern @ InternMatch
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Designed site features for main product, developed the client side and rails backend for each

### Technical Cofounder @ StudyCloud
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Champaign, IL
A learning management system. 
- View a lesson-by-lesson overview of documents released in a class. View documents online and discuss them in real time.
- A calendar and agenda based timeline of classes, assignments, tests, and notifications. 
- Video or group chat with online class peers.

### Software Developer @ Zero Percent
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Champaign, IL
I developed the front end for a real time food marketplace used for donations by restaurants with extra food and food pantries.

### Software Developer @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Department of Crop Sciences
Contributed UI elements and tests to software that lets researchers filter and manage large RNA Sequence data sets.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-lopatin-a9a1b741
- Website: https://livelytracker.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/lopatin

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Last updated: 2026-03-22