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New York, Ny, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Quantify the risk of software change. Capture, track, and visualize changes in portfolio valuations across all Global Markets that are attributable to code releases (past & present). Drive collaboration between Quant, Tech, and Trading LOBs to adopt a common analytics library and to resolve audit deficiencies.• Created a suite of custom tools to pull both trade data and SDLC metadata from a wide variety of bank systems into a single repository. Built primarily on Python, the proprietary “Quartz” platform, and Microsoft SQL Server.• Designed an integration testing workflow so that developers in heavily siloed LOBs could coordinate, without either side having to replicate the other’s environment.

New York, Ny, Us

Developer Lead for FX trade capture & reporting infrastructure• Responsible for regulatory compliance across worldwide FX jurisdictions• Implemented realtime reporting and reconciliation of OTC derivative trades, per Dodd-Frank & its global counterparts• Migrated the FX prime brokerage systems to "Athena": JPM's strategic Python-based risk management platform, backed by a proprietary graph database and columnar data warehouse • Designed the full stack (data model, application services, UI) for visualizations e.g. live risk, electronic trading flow, exception monitoring

New York, New York, Us

Extend and maintain "SecDB": the firm’s proprietary risk, pricing, and data analytics platform. Lead a global team responsible for access-control workflows and information-barrier enforcement, and their secure implementation in a variety of downstream systems. Redesign the QA infrastructure for high scale; drive its adoption to maximize test coverage. Build custom test harness for algorithmic trading & other complex, multi-tier services. Attack performance & usability issues in the central job scheduling engine, the IDE, the ORM framework, and other crucial components of the software stack.• Brought Procmon, SecDB, relational trade databases, and other critical infra into audit compliance ahead of regulatory deadlines.• Increased test scheduling headroom by 3 orders of magnitude, and end-to-end test throughput by >10X, all while retaining billions of rows of history instead of millions. Thanks to this investment, reliability of biweekly releases continued to improve even as the platform grew by >1MLoC/month, the matrix of supported configs doubled in scope, and QA staff shrank.• Contributed significant code to over a dozen projects in total – spanning SQL (Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, Postgres, Sqlite), Slang (bespoke script language for SecDB), Python, Perl, Java, and C. Participated in many more as a security and architecture reviewer.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversee quality and efficiency of a $2.5B hedge fund’s software projects. Reduce the number of defects introduced during rapid, unpredictable release cycles. Draft a long-term plan to improve agility, while shielding developers from day-to-day configuration management. Report QA metrics to business stakeholders. Use MS background to assist migration to Silverlight/WCF.• Quickly learned the financial workflow; led all verification passes within weeks of arrival. Codified scenarios into checklists, enabling additional staff to participate. Customer-reported defects decreased in every quarter to date.• Created a modern software QA infrastructure from scratch: o Automated test suite providing basic verification of old ASP.NET AJAX pages, new Silverlight UI, and webservice layer. o Continuous integration builds customized for each VMWare deployment environment; index all code & PDB symbols. o Fully scripted installer, capturing & parameterizing the entire intranet configuration (web pages, IIS settings, Windows services, SQL backups + schema alterations). Reduced time for 100% repeatable deployments from days to minutes.• Profiled many longstanding performance and reliability issues. Provided detailed feedback on product architecture, plus a few targeted code submissions. Reduced bandwidth of common operations by 15X, perceived latency by over 100X.• Drove adoption of Scrum process based on Visual Studio Team System. Singlehandedly maintained the defect & feature backlogs. Recognized by company leadership for greatly improving coworker productivity and project transparency.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Engineer II - Visual SourceSafe********************************Sole engineer responsible for Microsoft’s previous version control product. Maintain 600,000 lines of C/C++ code. Debug postmortem crash & hang dumps. Profile performance issues. Triage change requests from Customer Support, Microsoft Connect, and blogs/forums. Report bug trends and release schedule directly to senior management.• Mastered large legacy codebase without training. Delivered first customer fix 2 days after Redmond, WA team was disbanded.• Partnered with remote Customer Support call center to reduce average hotfix turnaround time by nearly 10X.• Proactively fixed ~70 bugs. Drove a comprehensive service pack past all Microsoft release criteria: static & dynamic code analysis, security threat modeling, test automation, Windows® logo certification, legal compliance.• Received highest possible review scores: “exceeded” commitments and “outstanding” future potential.

Redmond, Washington, Us

SDE/T II - Team Foundation Server (TFS) Core*****************************************************Test the T-SQL and ASP.NET backend of Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio tools. Work closely with peers in Washington and India throughout the engineering process, advocating for customers and for testable designs. Respond to support escalations; perform root cause analysis; study failure patterns for holes in test coverage. During a major rearchitecture, ensure version-to-version upgrades and ongoing functional quality.• Recognized at 3 quarterly meetings for expertise on VSTS architecture and resolving customer issues, in & outside Microsoft.• Pioneered team’s use of Powershell to directly exercise server APIs, greatly simplifying ad hoc testing early in the product cycle.• Devised new strategy for testing upgrades with autogenerated data. Scripted initial platform for version control components.SDE/T - TFS Version Control*********************************Draft test plans. Write unit & end-to-end tests in C#. Improve automation infrastructure. Start test runs and analyze failures in assigned areas. Promote internal use of TFS.• Took ownership of the most complex feature areas (Merge and Resolve) less than 1 year after joining the team.• Integrated the central VB.NET test harness (used by over 1000 engineers) with TFS’s version control & bug tracking facilities.• Promoted 2X within 20 months of joining Microsoft.

Work with business, education, and retail clients to understand hardware requirements. Specify custom computers (from laptops to A/V workstations to server clusters).• Ranked consistently among top 3 leaders in North Carolina hardware sales.• Created internal Wiki in PHP / MySQL for repair staff. Wrote several articles that reduced labor cost of common tasks.

A.B., Computer Science, Music

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