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Independent Software Engineer / Researcher specializing in high-performance web apps, algorithmic trading, UNIX development, distributed systems and computational intelligence with more than 11 years experience in software development and 4 years in computational finance. Worked at the largest slovak internet company Zoznam, which has more than 50 online products as Senior Developer with a focus on design and implementation high-performance web applications for 4 years. Worked especially on comprehensive news system for the most frequently visited Slovak news sites. Studied Information Technologies at Banking Institute / College of Banking. Mainly focused on development IT systems, planning & managing IS projects, partially on design and development electronic trading system. Previous study was Applied Informatics at Slovak University of Technology. Interest for science--specially for cognitive science and evolution--, financial markets, new technology, design, internet, marketing, psychology, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. Voracious reader, eternal thinker, keen amateur photographer and avid sportsman. HIGHLIGHT: ★ More than 11 years in software development and 4 years in computational finance ★ R&D on dozens of web and trading/finance projects ★ Strong experiences in C/C++, Python and Perl ★ Very good skill with design, implementation and optimization high-performance systems ★ Also with design and maintenance of high-availability architectures ★ Deep knowledge of relational databases and NoSQL ★ Very good skill in computational intelligence (evolutionary, swarm, immune and neural systems) ★ Good skill in machine learning (supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning) ★ Knowledge of quantitative finance (security analysis, asset allocation, risk management) ★ Experience with project management, agile and lean environment ★ Background in web analytics and online marketingSoftware Engineer @ FAZULA is a project of small group Independent Software Engineers, who design and implement custom trading solutions. I’m part of as an Software Engineer/Researcher with focus on automated trading systems, computational finance, trading research tools and trading platforms. I mostly do research in computational finance and implement trading software in C/C++ with optimization for a high performance. I participated on dozen of trading projects. My biggest projects were a fully auto-adaptive automated trading system using elements of artificial intelligence and one HFT system. From December 2010 to Present (5 years 1 month) Owner/Consultant @ W7 is a consulting/software company specializing in complex web solutions. Covering the whole process of the web application include process of design, implementation and optimization. I’m consulting and helping with web applications, web services, databases, server architecture, web analytics, client side & server side optimization and scaling. First year I realized three complete web projects include development focused on a highly scalable design. From May 2011 to Present (4 years 8 months) Senior Developer @ Zoznam is the largest Slovak internet company which has more than 50 online products. I worked there as Senior Developer with orient on design, implementation and optimization high-performance web applications. First year I work on many small projects and further I targeted only on two big projects. First was a comprehensive news system for the most frequently visited Slovak news sites, also it was a biggest project at Zoznam. Second was a large content management system for generating microsites concentrated on a vast functionality and a easy modularity. From July 2007 to June 2011 (4 years) Bachelor's degree, Information Technologies @ Banking Institute / College of Banking From 2009 to 2012 Applied Informatics @ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava From 2007 to 2009 Multimedia @ The Secondary Technical School of Jozef Murgas From 2003 to 2007 Andrej Kolar is skilled in: C/C++, Trading Systems, Automated Trading, Web Development, Python, Web performance optimization, UNIX application development, Parallel Programming, C++, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Django, Web Analytics, MySQL