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Technology to bridge the past with the future.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Responsible for Financial Platform group, owning ERP, custom FinTech, Compliance Automation, and Inventory Profitability Reporting and Forecasting in support of Capital Markets, Accounting, Treasury, Finance & Strategy, Data Governance, and SOX Compliance teams• Responsible for Cloud Infrastructure underpinning Development, Product, Data, and Operations systems, including Paved path Developer Experience, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, FinOps, and Incident Management programs• Responsible for global IT Engineering and IT Operations functions, managing all hardware, 3rd party software, SaaS contracts and integrations, office IT facilities, and employee onboarding.• Responsible for global Security functions, covered by Security Operations, Security Development, and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance teams• Responsible for Transaction and Operations department, underpinning the transaction platform and operator excellence functions, including DOMA migration, CRM, and operator copilot AI investments• Responsible for Technical Program Management function supporting Engineering, Product, and Design departments, driving cross departmental programs and strategic planning• Responsible for Technical Due Diligence in service of Opendoor M&A and subsidiary divestiture• Canadian site lead and local subsidiary board member

San Francisco, California, Us

• Founding technologist• Responsible for all technical aspects of the business.• Responsible for recruiting, structure, and management of engineering and digital model departments.• Responsible for all engineering development and operations.• Responsible for all digital model and plan development processes and operations.• Responsible for business strategy focused on technology.• Responsible for fundraising strategy focused on technology.• Managed team and technology negotiations during final acquisition by Opendoor

New York, Us

• Responsible for personnel management, budget > 5M, and prioritization for Operations and Development departments with 50 engineers• Responsible for service delivery, uptime, connectivity, and responsiveness of trading infrastructure and web presence• Responsible for Pricing, Trade Execution, and Hedging, >1M txns and >5B USD daily volume• Responsible for Fund Management System and Account Management Portal, >1M USD daily funds, >400M USD Assets Under Management• Responsible for Customer Facing Trading GUIs, APIs, and third party integrations• Responsible for Configuration Management and Continuous Delivery of all software• Member of executive team, aligning frontline agile initiatives with regional and global business goals• Drove migration from legacy to Next Gen Trade Execution system

New York, Us

• Responsible for personnel management, budget, and prioritization for department with 20 engineers• Responsible for Pricing, Trade Execution, and Hedging functions• Reorganized backend teams responsible for Pricing, Trade Execution, and Hedging, integrating them with Next Gen Execution, Architecture, and Reliability and Performance teams to form one department• Aligned design and development activities with newly established technical and product roadmaps• Drove adoption of Agile and Continuous Delivery methodologies in backend teams

New York, Us

• Responsible for personnel management of department with 15 engineers• Formed the Architecture team to manage and coordinate system wide design activities and develop architecture roadmap• Formed the Next Gen Execution team to design and implement a replacement for the core tradeexecution system• Drove OS Migration project to move from Oracle Solaris 10 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

New York, Us

• Responsible for personnel management of department with 40 engineers• Integrated Technical Operations, IT, Release Infrastructure, DBA, Performance & Reliability, andSystem Integration teams into one department, streamlining the release process• Formed Technical Support Team to work with Customer Service and handle customers’ complex technical issues directly• Drove the system optimization initiative to support 10k connections and sub 10ms transaction execution times• Drove the ISP Migration project, moving main trading system, fund management system, data services, and all websites to new facility in 1 weekend

New York, Us

• Responsible for personnel management of department with 25 engineers• Formed the Release Infrastructure Team to implement and manage virtual development, build, test, and deployment infrastructure• Formed the System Integration Team to manage rapid software release process• Formed the Reliability and Performance Team to continuously discover and remove critical system bottlenecks and points of instability• Formed the Database Administrator Team to manage database maintenance, schema change, high availability, and to work with Development to optimize database interactions• Responsible for new technical hire training program• Co-designed and supervised the implementation of the automated performance test system, configuration management system, and release management system• Drove the evaluation and integration of a CDN to reduce page load times and bandwidth costs• Drove the migration from Sparc to x86 architecture for all production hardware

New York, Us

Pricing Group• Responsible for technical and personnel management for 5 engineers• Drove real-time pricing system stability improvements through software performance analysis, a functional regression harness, and reimplementation of the communications layer• Performed analysis and tuning of existing statistical filtering algorithms for real-time pricing system• Performed analysis of query distribution on the historical pricing system• Designed and supervised the implementation of volatile and persistent caching mechanisms for the historical pricing system• Designed and supervised the implementation of compressed and sparsely indexed database backends for the historical pricing system• Responsible for administration of main backend database for trading system

New York, Us

Pricing Group• Designed and implemented memory mapped, non-periodic, time-series database prototype• Designed and executed performance tests for competing commercial non-periodic, time-series, database backends• Designed and implemented distributed, non-periodic, time series data warehousing layer for the historical pricing system• Performed historical back testing on competing future to spot price conversion formulae• Designed and implemented multithreaded protocol translation servers for automated trading with partner institutions• Convinced manager and team to use Revision Control and coordinated the merge of multiple branches

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Lecturer for ECE244H Programming Fundamentals, a second year core engineering course for the Department of Applied Science and Engineering at UofT.

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Transport Group• Implemented shared memory reporting and control interface, ASN1 internode communications protocol, and external radio antenna control interface for the distributed radio resource management system• Designed and implemented system wide statistics gathering, collating, storage, and reporting system• Designed and implemented manufacturing self test system for customer radio unit• Designed and implemented automated live air manufacturing test environment for the customer radio unit and base station

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Integration Group (a founding member)• Rapidly developed understanding of integration points between all hardware and software components of the full telecommunications system• Worked with other Integrators to perform the initial installation and integration of the full telecommunications system, from core network servers and routers to the customer radio units• Worked with all hardware and software development teams to resolve issues found during integration

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Communications Group• Performed network throughput, latency, and jitter analysis of competing transport layers. Variables in the analysis were TCP/IP stacks, kernels, interface drivers, network interface hardware, and CPU architecture• Analyzed performance of Quality Of Service enabled layer 2 network switches under congestion due to competing voice and data streams• Implementation of a single custom Linux distribution for multiple embedded platforms with different CPU architectures• Implementation of driver support for hardware interrupt mitigation to reduce kernel context switching due to high network load

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• General interface and reporting work for the custom ERP system supporting CRM and corporate accounting functions• Design and implementation of Y2K aware date input mechanism for the custom ERP system• Design and rollout of corporate network expansion including TCP/IP stack integration, ISDN internet backhaul, and email integration