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Dr. Alexander Mikhailovich Volkov

Visionary technology executive with 25+ years architecting enterprise-scale systems across Fortune 100 companies. Led digital transformation initiatives impacting 500M+ users globally. Published author and keynote speaker on distributed systems and engineering leadership.

πŸ“ Singapore / San Francisco / London πŸ’Ό 25+ Years Experience 🏒 Chief Technology Officer at Global Financial Systems Corp πŸ“§ alexander.volkov@gfscorp.com

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About

As Chief Technology Officer at Global Financial Systems Corp, I lead a 450+ person global engineering organization across 12 countries, building mission-critical financial infrastructure that processes over $1.2 trillion in annual transaction volume.

Over my 25-year career, I have architected and scaled systems serving half a billion users, led multiple successful IPOs and acquisitions, and built engineering organizations from startup phase to enterprise scale. My technical foundation spans distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, real-time data processing, and AI/ML platforms.

I am passionate about cultivating engineering excellence, fostering innovation at scale, and mentoring the next generation of technology leaders. I believe great technology organizations are built on trust, psychological safety, and a relentless focus on solving meaningful problems for customers.

Core Competencies:
β€’ Enterprise Architecture & Digital Transformation at Fortune 100 scale
β€’ Building and scaling global engineering organizations (50 β†’ 500+ engineers)
β€’ Real-time financial systems with 99.999% availability requirements
β€’ Strategic technology roadmapping and multi-year platform investments
β€’ M&A technical due diligence and post-merger integration
β€’ Board-level communication and investor relations

Awards & Recognition:
β€’ Named to CIO Magazine's "Top 50 CTOs" three consecutive years (2022-2024)
β€’ IEEE Senior Member with 15+ peer-reviewed publications
β€’ Winner of the ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for distributed database innovations

Interest

πŸ—οΈ Distributed Systems ArchitectureπŸ‘₯ Engineering Leadershipβš™οΈ Platform EngineeringπŸ’³ Financial TechnologyπŸ€– AI/ML EngineeringπŸ”“ Open Source DevelopmentπŸ“ Technical Writing🎀 Conference Speaking🎯 Mentorship & CoachingπŸ”¬ Research & Innovation

EDUCATION

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Ph.D. Computer Science GPA/Score: 4.0
1995 β€” 1999

Dissertation: "Distributed Consensus Algorithms for High-Frequency Transaction Processing Systems" (Advisor: Prof. Barbara Liskov, Turing Award winner) β€’ Published 6 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier venues (SIGMOD, VLDB, SOSP) β€’ NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient β€’ Teaching Assistant for 6.824 Distributed Systems (MIT's signature grad course) β€’ Co-founded MIT FinTech Club, still active with 500+ members

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Stanford University

M.S. Computer Science GPA/Score: 3.97
1993 β€” 1995

Focus on Database Systems and Distributed Computing β€’ Research Assistant in Stanford Database Group β€’ Published master's thesis on transaction isolation in distributed databases β€’ Recipient of Stanford Graduate Fellowship (awarded to top 5% of applicants)

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University of California, Berkeley

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) GPA/Score: 3.92
1989 β€” 1993

Graduated summa cum laude with Highest Distinction β€’ Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar (top 1% of incoming class) β€’ Undergraduate Research with Prof. David Patterson (RISC pioneer, Turing Award winner) β€’ President, Computer Science Undergraduate Association β€’ Founded Berkeley ACM Programming Contest team, placed 3rd nationally

Experience

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Chief Technology Officer

Global Financial Systems Corp β€’ Jan 2019 - Present

β€’ Lead 450+ engineers across Platform, Infrastructure, Product, Data, and Security teams spanning 12 countries with a $180M annual technology budget β€’ Architected next-generation payment processing platform handling $1.2T in annual volume with 99.999% availability (5 nines) β€’ Drove company-wide cloud migration (on-prem to multi-cloud) reducing TCO by 42% ($65M annual savings) while improving deployment velocity by 15x β€’ Established AI Center of Excellence developing ML models that reduced fraud losses by 78% ($340M prevented annually) β€’ Led technical due diligence for 4 strategic acquisitions totaling $2.1B and successfully integrated all technology stacks β€’ Implemented platform engineering practices reducing developer toil by 60% and increasing deployment frequency from weekly to 50+ deploys/day β€’ Built engineering brand resulting in 2x improvement in technical hiring pipeline and 91% retention rate β€’ Regular presenter to Board of Directors and investors on technology strategy and risk management

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Senior Vice President of Engineering

International Payment Solutions β€’ Mar 2014 - Dec 2018

β€’ Scaled engineering organization from 85 to 320 engineers while maintaining culture and delivery excellence β€’ Led complete rewrite of legacy payment gateway from C++ monolith to microservices (Go/Java), enabling 10x transaction throughput β€’ Designed real-time settlement system reducing cross-border payment times from 3 days to 15 seconds β€’ Established SRE practices achieving 99.99% uptime across all production systems (previously 99.5%) β€’ Built data platform processing 500TB+ daily for real-time fraud detection and business intelligence β€’ Launched mobile SDK adopted by 40,000+ merchants generating $80M in incremental revenue β€’ Key technology leader in successful IPO ($4.2B valuation) and subsequent growth to $12B market cap β€’ Managed $45M annual infrastructure budget with demonstrated 30% year-over-year efficiency gains

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Vice President of Engineering

Accenture Technology β€’ Aug 2009 - Feb 2014

β€’ Led technology practice serving Fortune 100 financial services clients across banking, insurance, and capital markets β€’ Managed portfolio of 15+ concurrent projects with combined annual revenue of $120M and 200+ consultants β€’ Architected core banking modernization for top-5 US bank serving 50M+ customers ($800M program) β€’ Designed and delivered real-time risk analytics platform for global investment bank (10,000+ concurrent users) β€’ Established delivery centers in India and Philippines, building teams from 0 to 150+ engineers β€’ Created reusable assets and accelerators reducing project delivery times by 40% across the practice β€’ Promoted twice during tenure; received CEO Award for Innovation (top 0.1% of employees)

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Principal Software Architect

IBM Global Services β€’ Jun 2004 - Jul 2009

β€’ Technical lead for enterprise integration practice specializing in SOA architecture for financial services β€’ Designed mission-critical trading systems for 3 of the top 10 global investment banks β€’ Led development of high-frequency trading platform achieving <100ΞΌs order-to-execution latency β€’ Created distributed caching framework later productized as part of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale β€’ Published 8 patents in distributed systems, message queuing, and transaction processing β€’ Contributed to Java Community Process (JCP) for J2EE specifications and enterprise messaging standards β€’ Regular speaker at IBM technical conferences with audiences of 5,000+ developers

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Senior Software Engineer β†’ Technical Lead

Sun Microsystems β€’ Aug 1999 - May 2004

β€’ Core contributor to Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform used by millions of developers worldwide β€’ Led team of 12 engineers developing Java Message Service (JMS) reference implementation β€’ Designed clustering and high-availability features for Sun Application Server (later GlassFish) β€’ Contributed to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performance optimizations improving throughput by 35% β€’ Authored internal technical documentation adopted as Sun's official best practices for enterprise Java β€’ Mentored 20+ junior engineers, with 5 advancing to principal/staff engineer level during tenure

Stack

Featured

Go Go 12 Yrs
πŸ¦€ Rust 8 Yrs
β˜• Java 25 Yrs
🐍 Python 20 Yrs
☸️ Kubernetes 9 Yrs
☁️ AWS 15 Yrs
🐘 PostgreSQL 22 Yrs
kafka Apache Kafka 10 Yrs
Tf Terraform 8 Yrs
πŸ”΄ Redis 14 Yrs

Others

TS TypeScript 9 Yrs
C++ C++ 18 Yrs
gR gRPC 8 Yrs
β—‡ GraphQL 7 Yrs
πŸƒ MongoDB 12 Yrs
Ca Cassandra 10 Yrs
spark Apache Spark 9 Yrs
🐳 Docker 11 Yrs
Az Azure 12 Yrs
GC Google Cloud 10 Yrs

Certificate

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services
#AWS-SAP-2024-AV-001234

Advanced certification demonstrating expertise in designing complex, multi-tier distributed applications on AWS infrastructure

Cloud ArchitectureDistributed SystemsEnterprise Design

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud
#GCP-PCA-2024-5678901

Professional-level certification for designing, developing, and managing robust, secure, scalable, and dynamic solutions on Google Cloud

Cloud ArchitectureGCP ServicesSecurity

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

The Linux Foundation
#LF-CKA-2024-789012

Demonstrates hands-on proficiency in Kubernetes administration, cluster architecture, and workload management

Container OrchestrationDevOpsPlatform Engineering

TOGAF 9.2 Enterprise Architect

The Open Group
#TOGAF-EA-2023-345678

Industry-standard certification for enterprise architecture methodology and framework implementation

Enterprise ArchitectureStrategyGovernance

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

ISCΒ²
#CISSP-2023-901234

Premier cybersecurity certification validating expertise across 8 security domains for enterprise leadership

Information SecurityRisk ManagementSecurity Architecture

Portfolio

Nexus Global Payments Platform

v8.4.2

Enterprise-grade payment orchestration platform enabling real-time cross-border payments across 180+ countries supporting 45 currencies with instant settlement capabilities

πŸ‘₯ 2.5M Active Users πŸ“Š 15M Total Users
android ios web
Built with: GoKubernetesKafkaPostgreSQLRedisgRPC

RiskGuard AI

v5.1.0

Real-time fraud detection and risk scoring engine powered by ensemble ML models and graph neural networks, processing 100K+ transactions per second with sub-10ms latency

πŸ‘₯ 850K Active Users πŸ“Š 3.2M Total Users
web linux
Built with: PythonTensorFlowApache SparkCassandraKubernetes

DevPlatform

v12.0.0

Internal developer platform providing self-service infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security scanning for 2,000+ microservices

πŸ‘₯ 2.8K Active Users πŸ“Š 4.5K Total Users
web
Built with: TypeScriptReactGoTerraformArgoCDBackstage

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