Daryl Drake Email & Phone Number

Madrid, Es

Champaign, Il, Us

Served as the head teaching assistant for the spring 2024 Cloud Computing Applications course

Chicago, Il, Us

Led a cross-functional team to develop and implement an internal trade quality metric system in Pythonhandling millions of trades per day and integrating data from throughout our ecosystem to providereal-time analysis of trade quality and risk to all trading desks.Designed, deployed, and managed scalable data ETL pipelines using Python, Apache Flink, and ApacheKafka on an AWS Elastic Kubernetes cluster, resulting in significantly increased throughput andaccuracy of data processing.Orchestrated the build, configuration, and lifecycle of our streaming services on Jenkins, Kubernetes,and Docker, utilizing Grafana and Prometheus to implement comprehensive monitoring dashboards andalerts.Administered multiple Postgres Timescale databases, ensuring their availability, reliability, andsecurity, optimizing performance, and implementing changes to meet business requirements.Collaborated closely with traders to conduct quantitative analysis of trading data using Apache Sparkand PostgreSQL, identifying patterns and diagnosing issues within our data infrastructure.Built automated workflows for backfills, daily report generation, and data integrity checks usingDatabricks and Argo.Revamped extensive Python libraries utilized company-wide for efficient data storage and manipulation,and for seamless interfacing with our C++ math APIs.Transformed Jupyter notebooks into production-ready Python dashboards using Pandas and Matplotlib,enabling traders and researchers to interact visually with our risk models.

Champaign, Il, Us

Produced a virtual reality teaching environment for medical students using the Unity game engine,Steam VR and C#, enabling immersive interaction with 3D models of human anatomy.Developed a Python pipeline using PyTorch to automatically segment 2D DICOM MRI and CT scans andconvert them into 3D models.

Verona, Wi, Us

Created a full-stack .NET web app using C# and MySQL for hospital administrators to detect and preventmalicious access patterns in their data research tools.

Champaign, Il, Us

Cultured liver tumor progenitor cells and embedded them on custom fluorescent-bead-gel substrates fortraction force microscopy experiments.Analyzed gene expression changes in response to varying growth factors and tensile forces byquantifying mRNA levels through Q-PCR analysis.Utilized numerical analysis techniques in MATLAB and ImageJ to calculate cellular membrane tensileforces.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Optimized the performance of an auto-assembly unit used in the manufacturing process of medicaldevices and verified results through tensile strength testing.Designed and prototyped custom fixtures for tensile strength experiments using SolidWorks andStereolithography/Fused Deposition Modeling 3D printing.

Eau Claire, Wi, Us

Received, distributed, and managed shipments of freight throughout the warehouse and outdoor lumber yard in order to maintain appropriate levels of merchandise. Operated Forklifts and other heavy machinery. Worked in a team setting handling incoming and outgoing guest orders.

Master'S, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Bioengineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering

Minor, Chemistry

Minor, Mathematics

Highschool Diploma