Yizhaq Zak Pinhas

Chief Architect at eToro

Israel

About

Experienced and dynamic CTO/R&D Manager/Software Architect with proven record of success of developing and managing Financial Services' systems, Performance-sensitive High-Volume/Low-Latency Systems, Real Time and Store & Forward Architectures. Built from Zero Development and Operational departments. An effective team builder, with strong technical expertise and analytical skills translating business needs, who gets the job done. Strong leader and coach, organizer and planner, and persuasive negotiator who deals effectively across all levels of the organization. Work Experience: NASDAQ (USA), National Stock Exchange NSX (USA), Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, SunGard (inc. World Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Banc, & more) Expertise: Financial Systems, Equity trading, clearing and settlement. Financial protocols & messaging. High Performance, High-Volume/Low-Latency architectures & systems. Middleware, messaging, real time connectivity. BlockChain technology. Object oriented design and development.

Experience

  • Chief Architect at eToro
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

  • Vice President Of Engineering at CoreFund Capital
    May 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    (affiliate of PharmalytIQ)

  • Vice President Of Engineering at PharmalytIQ
    May 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Head of Trading Stations and Market Data Systems at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
    Jul 2009 - Jul 2020 · 11 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for development & production of Market Data distribution systems (Spider, FIX/Fast, Co-Location), Market Supervision Stations, and Trading Stations. Performance expert & architect (Latency, Throughput) measured in micro-seconds. CIO assistant for Research on Algo, HFT, and more. HFT and BlockChain presenter.

  • Lead Architect at Actimize (a NICE company)
    Oct 2008 - Jun 2009 · 9 mos