Alyona Bulda, Senior Project Manager and Consultant with Exactpro, has been leading diverse teams of software testing and development engineers, business analysts, and DevOps specialists across time zones and agile streams for over 15 years – spearheading software quality excellence for some of the world's leading FMIs and financial technology providers.
Client systems that Alyona has worked with have included a leading European multilateral trading facility, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in OTC financial and commodity related products, a premier technology solutions provider, a leading global rates and multi-asset clearing house and a multi-national central counterparty. She has also managed software testing of LSEG’s FPGA-accelerated Market Data Dissemination platform.
Alyona’s area of expertise spans project management and delivery of large-scale technology transformations related to both traditional and decentralised financial instruments (TradFi and DeFi domains, respectively), the latter including Central Bank Digital Assets issuance and distribution.
With her experience covering the full enterprise software delivery lifecycle, Alyona has an advanced skill set for analyzing complex trading, market data, and post-trade solutions, with a focus on test strategy development, integration testing, test execution, automation approaches, and regulatory compliance.
In her consultancy and project management roles, Alyona brings a unique perspective guided by a deep understanding of both established systems and emerging technologies.
Alyona successfully combines work on software quality assurance projects for Exactpro clients and R&D work. She is the author of a few research papers, including some published by the IEEE Computer Society.