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Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands

The Randstad, Netherlands

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Direct interaction with and reporting into C-level.
• Played a key role in building the Risk Control Framework from scratch, in facilitating a Strategic Risk Assessment, and in establishing Crisis Management guidelines.
• Effectively bridged the business-to-management and local-to-global gaps on key occasions, directly resulting in the streamlining or removal of inefficient or purposeless processes.
• Performed gap analyses on regulatory requirements changes such as in IFD/IFR, CRD/CRR.
• Engaged with domain experts across various departments, including Technology, Information Security, Trading, Risk, Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Procurement, Legal, Compliance, for risk assessments, control testing.
• Technology risk: reviewed new automated algorithms and system design proposals, highlighted key automation risks, and challenged Control designs to C-level, leading to concrete and recognized improvements in the.

• Implemented, tested, reviewed and deployed several trading strategies and communication modules for various trading desks and relevant electronic exchanges.
• Successfully designed and coordinated the deployment the hardware and software setup for a new auto trader for the commodities trading desk. The setup consisted of dozens of software services distributed across several.

• Built and managed a highly diverse team of 6 engineers, overcoming challenges in age and experience gaps.
• Interviewed and onboarded new team members, kept focus on targeted stakeholder engagement and management, on fast delivery, and coached for personal and professional growth.
• Led two complete cycles of performance assessment and inter-department calibrations, including promotions and terminations.
• Guided the team through technical and prioritization challenge,

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Maintained and refactored the legacy core Trading UI, keeping up to the scaling pace of the company. Scaled the system capacity from trading 10K financial instruments to 150K+. Designed the approach to shift from the.
• Interviewed tens of candidates as the main interviewer for Front-End, resulting in hires retained longer than the average per firm and with excellent career progressions.

Bucharest, Romania

• Delivered new features and improvements for legacy products – Windows applications.
• Designed, implemented, and delivered an API to facilitate integration of our application with a customer’s infrastructure.
• Created a patent application for an automated test workflow.
• Advocated for and embedded TDD in the team practices.
• Assumed informal leadership role in the team and supervised and evaluated one intern.

Bucharest, Romania

• Successfully delivered on many diverse outsourced projects, using a broad range of tools and technologies in a relatively short period of time.
• Worked entirely for remote customers.
• Covered all stages of software lifecycle in an Agile environment

Major in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics

• Highly entrepreneurial end-to-end role in a small start-up, engaging directly with customers to define functional requirements, designing, implementing and deploying solutions.