Erik Strelzoff Email & Phone Number

Woburn, MA

• Senior Technology Manager (2018-Present)Technology Manager (2015-2018)Retained following acquisition and promoted in recognition of the role played in the company’s growth. Led development of major projects and system.
• Improved customer support and knowledge transfer with a domain expert chatbot to support engineers​.
• Expanded system capacity and scalability to provide access for millions of investor users and integrate with the Morningstar.com website.
• Improved customer satisfaction and reduced costs with a “smart,” flexible navigation system for web crawling that improved connection reliability from 75% to 89.5%.
• Minimized customer interruptions by automating the classification of third-party financial platforms, reducing manual analysis and supporting operational scaling​.
• Cut costs $500K and improved efficiency by directing the migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and managing the functional and performance testing to support AWS scalability.

Woburn, MA

• Senior Principal Software Engineer (2009-2015)Principal Software Engineer (2003-2009)Senior Software Engineer (2001-2003)Company was acquired by Morningstar Inc. in April 2014 for $28M.Architected the foundation of.
• Expanded aggregation capability: Architected projects that expanded the number of sources from which data could be aggregated from 4,500 to 15,000 (banks, clearing firms, etc.) with 500,000+ financial accounts.
• Ensured scalable data processing across high-volume sites: Architected a load-balancing system to support millions of accounts, allowing the system to scale horizontally.
• Boosted revenue: Delivered access to 25% more financial institutions by integrating a JavaScript interpreter into the webcrawler (Rhino).
• Enabled seamless data integration: Built a mechanism to match human-readable company names to ticker symbols automating data enrichment and insights (NLP, fuzzy logic).Short-term Initiatives
• Expanded market reach: Built tax lot data capture and multi-currency support that improved customer satisfaction by expanding use cases and usability of the system.