Brendan Mckee Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Technology lead for Rates Trading

New York, NY, US

- Build and maintain backend algorithmic trading applications for hedging Trumid’s treasury exposure- Low level FIX semantics surfaced via Scala based gRPC microservices deployed to Kubernetes- Profiling and performance optimization across a system of multiple microservices- Automated end to end testing of FIX trading protocols

New York, NY, US

- Built EDI parsing and validation infrastructure- Fully serverless architecture on AWS with heavy use of the CDK

Seattle, WA, US

Tech lead for the AWS IoT Rules Engine

Seattle, WA, US

- Development and maintenance of the AWS IoT Rules Engine- Multi-region distributed systems built on AWS infrastructure- Extensive use of Scala and Akka/Akka-Streams

Seattle, WA, US

- Large scale big data ingestion pipeline based on based on Apache Spark Streaming in the Information Security domain- Distributed systems based on AWS services- Extensive use of Scala and Akka

Seattle, WA, US

- Automated metric analysis and anomaly detection across tens of thousands of hosts- Fault detection and automated recovery- Distributed systems built with Spring based RESTful web services and AWS services

Cooma, NSW, AU

• Design and development of software to improve market transparency and trader decision-making.
• Microsoft technology stack, including WPF and RESTful web services using MVC 4 and Web API 2
• Investigations and simulations of market conditions with the aim of writing code to automate processes and improve trading team efficiency

Cooma, NSW, AU

• Spot market and derivatives market fundamental analysis, including analysis of competitor behaviour, short and long term weather forecasts, transmission constraints and political/regulatory environments
• PnL and risk measurement, reporting and reconciliation. Scenario analysis for a portfolio of energy derivatives.
• Software development using new and innovative ways to query multiple relational databases and present useful data using C#, SQL, VBA and Excel.
• Utilised Reuters.NET SDK to build an event driven price and arbitrage opportunity alarm program for the Futures and OTC market.

Cooma, NSW, AU

• Real-time bidding of Snowy Hydro's generation assets in order to optimise revenue
• Short and long-term analysis of market factors including generation supply, pricing outcomes and competitor bidding strategies
• Specification and development of applications to improve market transparency and spot trader decision-making
• Scenario analysis, risk measure reporting/reconciliation, market/credit risk management and modelling.

Sydney, NSW, AU

• Developed functions in SAS code with some SQL to manage large customer and account datasets and automatically retrieve and combine user data into smaller cohesive monthly datasets for regular reporting.
• Built and managed credit card datasets used for Basel II Internal Ratings Based capital requirements modelling using statistical analysis and manipulation of very large datasets.