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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Delivering projects across multiple development teams, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers, client support, and development teams in multiple locations. Drove rapid development of customer-facing mobile apps, community-focused indexes, and derived analytics factories. Led team of 5 developers responsible for collecting exchange data which fuels the market data products making up more than 55% of company revenue.- Delivered first version of Cryptoasset mobile app on Android within first 6 weeks of employment, receiving acclamation by Board of Directors and praised in “On the Brink” podcast.- Designed, developed, and deployed AWS replacement for creation and access to Bletchley Indexes content, with monthly cost savings of 66%, self-healing index calculations, and zero client-raised issues since deployment.- Worked very closely with the data scientists to build, verify, and deploy multiple derived analytics factories, generating value-add content via aggregation and applied mathematics.- Driving product grown by delivering multiple exchange feed handlers, migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes, creating “push button” deployment infrastructure, and leading team (as needed) responsible for all non-blockchain content acquisition.

Eagan, Minnesota

Acting solutions architect for “Enrichment Activities” using Amazon Web Services, including valuations infrastructure and derived field calculator (written in Python and Java) by team of 10 contractors in Ukraine. Managed shared services, including software development, database administration, documentation services, quality assurance, system administration, and service management, comprised of 170 people, spanning 3 continents, 5 countries and 7 time zones.- Spearheaded project, reducing client-impacting incidents to lowest level ever achieved, while increasing total velocity of client-visible features and exceeding the business goals for the year.- Oversaw large projects, supporting MiFID II requirements and refactoring existing infrastructures to a microservice-based architecture in Amazon Web Services.- Facilitated team relationships through collaboration, ensuring teams and supported products would continue to be successful after significant corporate restructure moved organization into multiple divisions.- Designed, implemented, and supported 8TB time series database, a prototype Java application, creating bond floor pricing compliant with Swiss Federal Tax Administration guidelines.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Led team of 18+ technologists, in 2 countries, responsible for all aspects of fixed income pricing and analytics life cycle, including design, development, quality assurance, deployment and 24x7 on-call support. Manufactured, validated, and delivered pricing and analytics for more than 2.5M instruments in less than 35 minutes, 9 times per day.- Added support for pricing several new asset classes, generating new sales leads, customers, and revenue streams.- Delivered rapid prototypes, often with overnight turnaround, to validate core feature requests with stakeholders, ensuring requirements were well understood before committing team for development and delivery.- Absorbed analytics team after loss of key developer, delivering on business commitments without client impact.- Dramatically improved velocity of story points, while simultaneously reducing number of client-reported issues through developer engagement, stakeholder collaboration, and constant focus on software quality.- Developed a team of best-in-class technologists, with one of the highest levels of retention within the division.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Built team from individual contributor to group of 8 developers, in 2 time zones, responsible for manufacturing, validation, and delivery of fixed income pricing and analytics on 1.5M+ instruments in less than 35 minutes, 3 times per day. Primary contact for regional pricing desks across the globe, managing and guiding development staff in St. Paul and New York, while providing on-call support for Technical Operations in St. Louis.- Designed, developed, and deployed expanded international pricing product supporting 3 global regions, more than 26 countries, and multiple regional pricing desk teams.- Migrated pricing infrastructure (50+ machines) to new datacenter with no interruption to service or client-related tickets.- Reimagined pricing quality assurance process, approaching from client perspective, creating completely new infrastructure that improved overall quality, resulting in dramatic decrease of client-raised tickets after a major release.- Acted as entire Pricing Desk and directed teams in multiple locations during 9/11 and subsequent week of recovery, while networks, machines and infrastructure was restored for team in NYC, included managing internal and client expectations.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States