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Cheshire, CT, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Post acquisition my role expanded and now includes leading major initiatives.
• Spearheaded the re-engineering of the Apache Spark platform core using Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg, achieving a 66% reduction in hosting costs through dynamic scaling while maintaining performance and data integrity.
• Designed and implemented a HITRUST-compliant cloud development environment in AWS for a team of 10 software engineers; leveraging Terraform for infrastructure as code to ensure secure and efficient deployment.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Led the small team that developed award winning data science capability for the platform.
• Directed a team and actively contributed to the rapid development and deployment of customer pilot subscriptions, transforming interest from screen mockups into functional pilots and ensuring on-time delivery that met.
• Led comprehensive numerical validation of diverse model fitting results using Python and R, meticulously analyzing underlying open-source libraries to resolve minute differences in floating-point arithmetic, ensuring.
• Facilitated customers’ transition from statistical to machine learning models by contributing expertise in model explanation, particularly through the application of Shapley values.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• The role began with Scala backend development; when the company pivoted I took responsibility for understanding client needs, developing machine learning models to meet those needs, and communicating results.
• Developed innovative machine learning models from inception to predict patient outcomes, contributing to securing new business opportunities in behavioral health and value-based care.
• Pioneered a hybrid approach to model fitting, leveraging Apache Spark for scalability and GPU-accelerated PyTorch for deep learning.
• Mentored junior team members in a polyglot environment, providing leadership and guidance across Apache Spark, Scala, Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash, and SQL.

• Rebuilt product with Alt.js, achieving better performance and implementing isomorphic/universal JavaScript.
• Developed a React Native application with Flux bridge to reuse actions and stores from the web app.
• Led the expedited development of the first iteration of an automated product recommendation engine.

Boston, MA, US

• Architected and developed OpenICE, an open-source Java-based distributed platform for integrating medical devices and clinical applications, widely utilized in research.
• Developed a library of over 10 reusable Java implementations of proprietary medical device interface protocols, frequently utilizing RS-232 communication.
• Supported high-rate data streams, such as EKG waveform traces, in Java implementations runnable on embedded ARM devices.
• Sole developer of both the backend and Android client for a Real Time Blue Button application.
• Developed a C++ Node.js add-on and Socket.io to receive medical device waveforms using DDS, enabling real-time data plotting in a web application via WebSocket.

Chicago, IL, US

• As a Portfolio Manager...
• Architected, wrote, and deployed low-latency algorithmic java trading software.
• Integrated java algorithms, models, and real-time risk management with TradeLink’s C++ APIs via JNI.
• Built statistical trading models (in T-SQL) tested over 10 years of stock performance data.As a Quantitative Researcher...
• Rewrote a complex legacy C++ algorithmic trading system.
• Leveraged multicore computing to achieve 6 orders of magnitude decrease in latency.

San Francisco, California, US

• Built java OMS, execution engine, and front end for algorithmic trading of equities via FIX
• Built distributed (via java RMI and a custom TCP protocol) java application for realtime risk management.
• Integrated java based algorithmic trading and risk management with Wachovia’s C++ “Activ Financial” APIs via JNI.
• Developed a T-SQL backtesting platform for equity strategies using 10 years of stock performance data.
• Developed a T-SQL system for position management between strategies to allow granular attribution of risk and p/l.

US

• Shared responsibility for daily execution incl. 5-10 million shares and 1-5 thousand option contracts.
• Created distributed (custom UDP,TCP) java system for real-time trade reporting, risk analysis, and P&L attribution.
• Drastically outperformed the firmwide system which could not handle stat-arb trade volumes.
• Java swing GUI allowed ~20 portfolio managers real-time monitoring and control for 3 traders.
• Created distributed (RMI) java system to host development of various execution algorithms.
• Authored execution algorithms for equities and equity options both in java and using CEP (Streambase)

Provided technical leadership to a team of ~15 developers at GEPS-RPI working on J2EE web applications using BEA Weblogic

B.S., Computer Science

B.S., Biology