Sasha Katsman Email & Phone Number

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Providing low level architecture design, most of the implementation, performance enhancements and continued maintenance for SAP Sybase IQ 16 N-bit Index compression, a new core technology that helped drive the petabyte.
• Prototyped continuous N-bit compression and a lockless, thread-safe, dynamically sized hashing mechanism; tested both technologies for performance and hardware scale up; incorporated into IQ enumerated base Index.
• Delivered dictionary compression with enriched metadata and optimized access layer covering full SQL range, and facilitating fast table scans as well as best choice of sort & join algorithms.
• Implemented sophisticated logic for fast incremental loads, in both updating the dictionary and recalculating metadata
• Achieved high availability through large memory reuse for N-bit objects across transactions
• Prototyped advanced secondary compression techniques, reducing memory footprint

• Co-founder of a start-up which, prior to acquisition by Sybase in 2010, was a provider of enterprise-class complex event processing, of event-driven near real-time BI suite, and of solutions for the financial markets.
• Key role in defining technology roadmap and going through Due Diligence to help secure Series A financing
• As an active developer and architect of the project, hired and led a small team of system engineers that built Aleri Column Store and vector based engine, starting with J Software sources
• Took Aleri Live OLAP from prototype to shippable product, acting as architect, server developer, and hands-on project manager of a development/QA team in Russia
• Achieved near real-time analysis performance for Live OLAP, through cutting edge virtual cube recalculation algorithms, event-driven by Aleri CEP
• Successfully managed the team in implementing MDX, XMLA, ODBO compatibility and integrating Live OLAP with popular BI front end tools

Zurich, CH

• I was a pioneer in bringing early Kx Systems technology (K programming language and execution environment) into production, for mission critical business applications. Benefiting form a close working relationship with.
• Developed servers for Sales Order Match, first ever front office K application in production, eventually taking over the entire product. Order matching, deployed on most trading and sales desks in Fixed Income.
• Developed Emerging Markets desk systems, including P&L, Bond and Option pricing, risk

New York, NY, US

• Initially developing systems in I.P. Sharp APL deployed on IBM mainframes, I played a big part in migrating to and expanding Trading applications in Morgan Stanley’s proprietary A+ development and execution.
• Developed and supported Government Options Exposure System (OES) for global options desk operating in New York, London and Tokyo. Wrote modules for pricing, inventory and risk exposure for trading books which included.

US

Built Portfolio Optimization and Risk Management applications, using IBM’s APL2.

Master'S Degree, Pure And Applied Mathematics

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science