[3] Senior Managing Director Sudhir Nair is the current Global Head of BlackRock's Aladdin program.

Purchased by Charles Hallac (1964-2015), this workstation stood between a refrigerator and a coffee machine in the company's one-room office at the time.

[11] BlackRock was asked to analyze the problematic mortgage portfolio of the investment bank Kidder, Peabody & Co, which had been a GE subsidiary since 1986.

Golub and other BlackRock employees realized that the analyses and models originally created using Aladdin for their own purposes were also of interest to clients.

In the further course of the financial crisis, BlackRock was allowed to value the balance sheet items of the now nationalized mortgage banks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and manage the repurchase of mortgage-backed securities for the US Federal Reserve in the amount of US$ 1.25 trillion.

The government contracts, including those from the UK and Greece, gave BlackRock access to information that in turn flowed into Aladdin.

Adam Curtis's 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation cites the Aladdin system as an example of how modern technocrats attempt to manage the complications of the real world.

Aladdin uses the following technologies: Linux, Java, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Splunk, ELK Stack, Apache, Nginx, Sybase ASE, Snowflake,[15] Cognos, FIX, Swift object storage, REST, AngularJS, TREP.