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New York, US

• Refactor legacy systems into modular, auto-documented, unit tested, microservices and deploy them to AWS Lambda (serverless) via a newly built Bitbucket deploy pipeline
• Oversaw technical overhaul required for multimillion dollar acquisition consisting of technical audit, security patches, implementation of GDPR compliance, etc.
• Work with stakeholders throughout company to define requirements, build specs, and deliver products in a timely manner
• Designed and helped code integration of Booking.com microservice, doubling the total number of available hotels and responsible for 15% of total bookings
• Architected and implemented credit card tokenization system to improve security and reduce PCI DSS compliance scope from SAQ-D to SAQ-A

New York, US

• Architected and spec’d integration of Google Hotel Prices as metasearch provider which now accounts for approximately 63% of all Tablet metasearch bookings
• Designed and coded modular RabbitMQ/Celery based microservice to replace legacy email systems and worked with the marketing team to deploy new email marketing features such as abandoned cart emails, dynamic newsletter.
• Conducted regular A/B testing in Sixpack

New York, US

• Designed and coded features that improved upon online travel backend services necessary for querying availability, creating bookings, communicating with channel managers, sending client notifications, etc.
• Improved the reliability and transparency of monolithic backend services through extensive, iterative, performance-minded, and test-driven refactoring
• Increased development speed and code quality by re-architecting git flow and by introducing unit tests and continuous integration
• Created an anonymous metasearch scraper in order to identify and resolve price parity discrepancies affecting critical revenue
• Reliably and quickly responded to and resolved critical site issues while serving as developer “on-call”

New York, US

• Aided project managers and UX designers in the interpretation and application of user stories to the planning of well thought out and functional features and ensured the realization of these features through the.
• Utilized the Page Object pattern and AWS EC2 to create a comprehensive Selenium testing suite with over 100 tests capable of scaling across devices and in response to load
• Facilitated rapid code deployment by introducing Jenkins CI and ensured post deploy productquality through the implementation of performance monitoring metrics
• Mentored junior QA automation engineers and maintained testing code quality through reviews

San Francisco, CA, US

• Conducted cross-platform automated regression testing of a number of Mozilla applications with Python and Selenium WebDriver
• Implemented Page Object Design in the development of reusable and maintainable tests and guaranteed the stability of those tests by utilizing Sauce Labs virtualization
• Developed projects within GitHub revision control system and incorporated changes through Travis Continuous Integration Web Service
• Identified and shared bugs with several defect management services, including Bugzilla, and communicated solutions across a cross-functional Agile team

New York, NY, US

• Conducted backtesting, optimization, walk-forward optimization, and Monte-Carlo simulations
• Identified opportunities in the equity market and developed novel trading strategies
• Performed extensive fundamental and technical analysis, examined financial statements, valuation metrics, and market trends

New York, NY, US

• Create and implement Python scripts to retrieve data from the Federal Register, the Unified Agenda, and other rulemaking repositories
• Codify every final rule promulgated from 1950 to present according to regulatory/institutional impact
• Pursue independent financial regulation research and contribute to extant academic discourse

• Search for opportunities in the market and develop novel trading strategies
• Backtest trading strategies in Excel with data pulled from financial services and government regulatory agency websites
• Conduct extensive fundamental and technical analysis, examining financial statements, relevant indicators, and price action
• Actualize trading plans, successfully trading ranges and trends, both long and short

• Oversee Officers, Instructors and the effective administration of the club
• Work to Improve weightlifting facilities
• Recruit new members while promoting physical fitness at Columbia University

New York, New York, US

• Supervised the shelter overnight
• Scheduled new volunteers and conducted orientations

New York, NY, US

• Assisted patrons with locating periodicals and microforms, as well as with operating the microform machines
• Opened and closed Periodical and Microform Reading Room
• Organized incoming microforms and periodicals, recorded statistical data pertaining to patronage

Washington, DC, US

• Participated in financial practice and financial regulation training sessions
• Worked with Bloomberg machines gathering usage statistics and monitoring the market
• Assembled legal research for Division of Investment and Division of Enforcement staff
• Updated SEC internal reporting requirements and external database source listings

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics And Political Science

High School Diploma