With more than 15 years of experience as a professional software engineer/team lead, Alex Tsirel joined WorldQuant Predictive full-time in October 2022 following a few years of consultancy. Alex has delivered small and large-scale systems using various technology stacks and tools in software engineering as well as systems architect and team lead capacity. His passion is to make data-intensive applications to perform and to bring maximum value to our clients. Alex received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Saint-Petersburg State University, graduating with honors.