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San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Core member of BlackRock's CNP (Cloud Native Platform) team. CNP is a next-gen platform where all Aladdin apps and client environments will be deployed via Kubernetes and is central to BlackRock’s massive cloud migration.- Designed & implemented Disaster Recovery for CNP - Hot-Hot design with all critical/client apps duplicated across East/West regions. Enabled the safe recovery of 2500+ microservices.- Led migration of 150+ distinct services to open-source ArgoCD AppSets - Reduced reliance on proprietary software by 30%.- Created extensive Azure Pipelines for regression testing Kubernetes manifests - 50+ prod errors caught over 1000+ pipeline runs.- Collaborated with Microsoft solutions architects - Built out an internal chaos engineering platform utilizing LitmusChaos.

New York, Ny, Us

- Rewrote SL (Securities Lending) Dashboard (fullstack Java/Angular) Restful APIs in gRPC - Increased data throughput by 5x, which enabled productionalizing of app for highly dense SL data. Alloweddeprecation of 3rd-party dashboard, saving $100k+ yearly in licensing fees for portfolio-managers. Established golden path that enabled 25+ monolithic Securities Lending services to transition to gRPC.- Rewrote Post-Trade web app (10+ web pages) using new BlackRock specific Angular components - Used by 75+ portfolio managers for derivatives trading across 100+ clients. Implemented Angular bestpractices that were previously absent. Weekly catch ups with a UX lead and design team.- BlackRock Principles Award - Led fullstack web development team as Project Manager to create a new internal knowledge sharing platform. Awarded #1 out of 2000+ nominees.- BlackRock Java/Web Champion - Recognition as distinguished member of Aladdin Web/Java communities at BlackRock. Responsible for coaching & certifying new joiners’ Java/Web skills via instruction & evaluation of a final project. Top 5 firmwide Champion for 2021.