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New York, New York, United States

• Created a sports betting startup to target the emerging legal sports betting markets in the US.
• Performed market research and developed systems to analyze sports data.
• Acquired historical play by play data for NFL games over the last 20 years.
• Built services in AWS using EC2 instances, EBS and S3 storage, Amazon RDS with PostgreSQL, and Amazon Sagemaker.

Miami, Florida, US

• Recommended by former colleagues to join this leading multinational hedge fund with more than $50 billion in assets under management.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired first-rate data engineers for the data engineering team as well as for Citadel’s prestigious company-wide NXT engineering program.
• Led and mentored a team comprised of six data engineers and provided overall vision and direction to support a combined team of 30+ data engineers and data scientists.
• Architected and created data pipelines to deliver vital datasets used by investment professionals to make competitive investment decisions on billions of dollars in investments.

New York, NY, US

• Selected as the first hire of this successful AdTech Startup and served as a member of the CEO, COO, and CTO core leadership group.
• Built a low latency, high volume Real-Time Bidding programmatic advertising system written in a combination of Scala and Java.
• Scaled the system from pre-launch to more than 500 servers in four locations with three cloud providers running 24/7/365.
• System handled billions of requests per day with an average total response time of less than 10 milliseconds.
• Built and maintained Spark Streaming and Spark SQL jobs for a back-end data processing cluster which handled more than 100k events per second from Kafka.

New York, NY, US

• Recruited as a Senior Software Engineer and then was promoted to lead a 12-person Software Development team to develop, maintain and provide quality assurance for mission critical data applications.
• Designed, built, and maintained automated web scraping robots for 100s of retail, technology, and news websites in.NET using C#, MS SQL Server and regular expressions.
• Actively engaged with investment research analysts to design effective solutions that captured data, analyzed performance, and helped to predict earnings of public companies.
• Reported to the COO of Research Sales and Trading and was responsible for overall planning, execution, and success of all technical projects for the Investment Research business.

Washington, DC, US

• Led development efforts to build a client facing web application for this data services company that tracks compiles, updates and enhances voter registration data for over 200 million people in all 50 states.
• Delivered an application built to receive and process terabytes of voter registration data for hundreds of millions of voters.
• Managed the project team using Agile to plan, scope, estimate, and execute five production level releases of new functionality.
• Built a responsive UI in Java using Maven, Apache Tapestry, Spring, Apache CXF JAX-RS, XML, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Boston, MA, US

• Received promotions from Associate up to Senior Associate of Technology with this global digital transformation consulting company now part of Publicis Groupe with 20,000 people in 50 locations.
• Built and implemented inventive web applications for government agencies including the DOD, Homeland Security, Treasury, and NIH.
• Developed a web application that interfaces via web services to execute queries over a federated network of data sources for the NIH.
• Received the 2007 Sapient People Growth Award & National Institutes of Health Merit Award.