Matthew Leonard Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Data is at the heart of Bloomberg’s technologies, which produce and distribute some of the most critical and valuable data in global business. The Storage Engineering teams design and maintain the global systems which store and process that data.Currently leading the globally distributed Storage Engineering organization comprised of over 8 teams and 60+ individuals who are responsible for building a highly available, scalable, and durable storage platform that is a unique mix of commodity hardware, software-defined storage, and appliance-based storage solutions. This represent hundreds of petabytes of 24 x 7 x forever mission critical data powering Bloomberg’s analytics as well as backing our private cloud, virtualization platforms and data protection systems.Presently overseeing a multiyear transition from a purely technology-oriented organization to a product-oriented organization offering a single Storage-As-A-Service platform to Bloomberg’s 7000+ application engineers worldwide. Some of Storage Engineering’s core technologies include Ceph, NAS, SAN, ECS, Centera, Apache Airflow, C++, python and web services. Core Responsibilities • Building a well-rounded context driven engineering organization • Continually refining storage products to meet Bloomberg’s changing needs • Defining strategic technical vision with a focus on emerging technologies, system stability and operational automation • Vendor management including performance, escalations and purchasing

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the Bloomberg Index Core Data team of 15 engineers, responsible for designing and building out new infrastructure to support the newly acquired Barclays BRAIS Fixed Income indices as well as supporting legacy Bloomberg and Barclays indices.The Core Data team supported three separate software stacks with a market value of over four trillion dollars USD benchmarked across four product families.Lead engineer on 18 month project to replace third party vendor feeds which reduced risk to daily index production as well as saving Bloomberg two million dollars USD in vendor fees per annum.Defined technical vision for the Core Data team’s software stacks in terms of future technologies, system load, scalability as well as overall system architecture.Created project plans for the team, managed multiple competing projects with aggressive deadlines, projected resourcing and communicated with project stakeholders across business, operations and engineering.Actively liaised with other engineering groups, business sponsors and Index Managers to prioritize cross team initiatives and manage expectations.Provide performance feedback and created development plans for all team members to help them reach their own individual career goals.

New York, Ny, Us

Contributed to the Portfolio & Risk Analytics department’s architecture redesign project by creating a real time data cache leveraging MemcacheD.Upgraded the Portfolio & Risk Analytics department's real time permission system that serves over 50 million requests a day by reducing average response time from 150 milliseconds to sub 4 milliseconds.Ported permission system from AIX and Solaris architectures to 64 bit Linux architecture to help reduce the departments power consumption.Maintained third party open source MemcacheD servers and client side libraries.Optimized relational database query plans and indices and investigated next generation graph based databases.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Analyzed deficiencies in the baseline CF-18 embedded software and propose fixes and upgrades to increase pilot situational awarenessImplemented bug fixes and upgrades in the flight software for the CF-18 in the AN/AYK-14 assembly languageDeveloped a computer model for a bullet being fired from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter incorporating ambient wind-speed, helicopter velocity and attitude, and rotor downwash for Canadian Forces training

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Member of the Space Flight Laboratory under Dr. Robert E. ZeeThesis project: Design and implement an embedded protocol stack for a custom built S-Band intersatellite radio designed using low power and resource limited microcontrollers, and transceivers.Thesis project: Architected and implemented software for a GPS hardware-in-the-loop simulator to aid in debugging, qualification, and asses performance of control algorithms for a formation flying nanosatellite mission (CanX-4/-5)

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Worked independently, managing requirements and design for several projectsInteracted with other groups to gather requirements (Internationally)Designed a software system to automate testing of new UMA/GAN functionality

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Worked independently, managing requirements and design for several projects (often in parallel) all aimed at optimizing the L2 HSDPA data plane for RIM's UMTS protocol stackRewrote key parts of HSDPA data plane in C

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Designed software systems to meet with demanding project specificationsWrote unmanaged to managed code wrapper, C++ to .NETDesigned and implemented device drivers for smart power bars, for Test FrameworkWorked on a large Automated Test FrameworkUsed National Instruments TestStand

London, Ontario, Ca

Designed a software process to determine radiation treatment success of cancer patients by using their 3D medical images such as CT, and PET scansExperience using DCMTK library, AMIDE, CERR, and MATLAB

Masters Of Applied Science, Aerospace Enginering; Space Flight Laboratory

Bachelor Of Engineering Science, Software Engineering Specializing In Embedded Systems

Computer Programmer Analyst, Computer Science