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New York, NY, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Saddle Brook, New Jersey, US

• Led the design and implementation of a secure, cloud-based SaaS platform for digital card issuance and management, serving a large and growing list of banks and credit unions.
• Directed all IT and security operations, achieving SOC2 and PCI DSS certifications through meticulous auditing and compliance efforts, ensuring the highest security standards.
• Developed a full-stack cloud-native infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, and a custom CI/CD pipeline that accelerated delivery and ensured robust security.
• Managed all production releases and support ensuring system stability, quick issue resolution, and minimal downtime.
• Established and managed secure connectivity to credit union networks and automated vulnerability scanning, improving system security and response time for potential threats.

New York, NY, US

• Managed a team of 8 developers in designing and maintaining real-time risk and trading systems for Equity Derivatives, driving efficient systems during critical events like Hurricane Sandy.
• Led the migration of complex market data systems, reducing platform instability and improving performance for high-volume equity options trading.
• Streamlined the startup, shutdown, and failover processes for key trading systems, ensuring system availability in disaster recovery scenarios.

New York, NY, US

• Oversaw a global team of 12 developers, managing the design and implementation of a real-time risk management system for OTC derivatives, responsible for approving up to $2 trillion in trades daily.
• Led system integration for the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merger, ensuring the smooth transition of critical risk and margin approval systems.
• Achieved regulatory compliance by implementing checks on credit exposure, ISDA agreements, and anti-money laundering (AML) status.

Zurich, CH

• Mortgage Origination System: Led the conversion of one of the world’s largest mortgage warehouse lending systems, with approximately $12 billion in outstanding loans, from an IBM mainframe to a Java-based web.
• Equities Client Relationship Management (CRM) System: Designed and developed UBS’s custom CRM system, creating a secure, scalable architecture that integrated with multiple databases and tools, significantly enhancing.
• Credit Derivatives Risk and Pricing System: Developed a real-time risk and pricing system for credit derivatives, capable of managing a large portfolio of credit default swaps (CDS) and computing real-time risk metrics.