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Tal Broda was former Vice President of Engineering at Paradigm. Previously, he was Head of Platform at Citadel Securities, where he was responsible for leading teams that built and operated modern, scalable, and highly available platforms that provided the foundation for the firm's systems. Before joining Citadel Securities, Tal was Vice President of Engineering at D2IQ, an enterprise cloud company. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer for SOASTA, a leader in digital performance management that is now part of Akamai. Tal also held senior engineering roles at Oracle earlier in his career. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and an MBA with honors from Columbia University in New York City.
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