Ramy Ayash Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Hands on development lead on technical projects where I design complex scalable solutions, lead the technical implementation, and manage 5 junior/intermediate software developers based out of North America and Europe
• Managing another team of 4 rotating software developers and 1 product owner responsible for weekly production releases, CI & CD pipelines for 250 developers working on the codebase, and actioning environment issues.
• Acting as the main point of contact between clients and the development team with a proven record of cost savings totalling over $8,000,000 CAD per year through various automation projects and utilization of pay as you.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designing and creating multiple scalable Python 3.9 applications for clients through rigorous Agile and TDD implementation frameworks while using libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and SQLAlchemy
• Taking initiative to add new features and maintaining existing C++ and Python code within the financial analytics library which aid in automation from Excel/VBA processes to strategic REST APIs and modular packages.
• Co-ordinated with stakeholders in global timezones (North America, Europe, Tokyo, etc.) to gather requirements for future engagements, provide weekly project status updates, as well as to demo the team’s achievements.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 2 junior software developers to deliver product features for stakeholders while being the principal reviewer for pull requests (Code reviews) and holding the team accountable

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Built deep relationships with clients and prospects in the Mid Market territory to understand their specific needs resulting in $280 thousand in annual recurring revenue
• Managed 147 existing clients and prospected into over 5,000 new accounts in a high paced, time-sensitive, and quota oriented environment
• Performed regular check-ins with existing accounts to ensure their needs were being met resulting in an annual retention 5 percent above planned (95%)
• Learned and aligned with strategic goals of each account leading to a 27% increase in product feature adoption

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Contributed modern production quality C++, Java, and Python to a financial engineering library used across pricing and risk calculations allowing traders to execute transactions with accurate, consistent, and reliable.
• Developed, tested, and enhanced internally built full-stack Java microservices that process modelling tasks on distributed cloud-engineered grids (AWS & Azure) allowing stakeholders to scale their business footprint.
• Took on additional responsibility as my pod’s Scrum Master, helping a team of 8 developers across multiple regions to implement and improve agile ceremonies (Sprint Plannings, Backlog Refinements, Retrospectives).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Pioneered the adoption of Big Data for the first use case within Capital Markets by leading the project team to implement and deliver platforms running on HDFS and MongoDB that ingested, transformed, and applied.
• Initiated and led Scrum ceremonies, cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement which ensured minimal defects, a unit test coverage of 92%, and easily maintainable code via thorough code reviews
• Developed automation scripts and metric dashboards for the QA and BA teams which increased points delivered each sprint by 1.2X along with doubling new stories with a Definition of Ready to be picked up by developers
• Managed my team's bi-weekly production release process through coordination with Production Support, upstream sources, and downstream consumers ensuring the success of over 10 releases

Toronto, Canada Area

• Wrote scripts in Python, SQL, and Bash to automate Derivatives Trade Reporting Quality Assurance and Business Analysis processes leading to improved QA metrics and re-distribution of team members to be utilized on.
• Built various tools which fetched, analyzed, and formatted FpML data for regulatory audits from various organizations (IIROC, SEC, ASIC) which shortened a project's timeline from 9 to 5 months (EMIR II, MiFiD, HKMA)
• Gathered and analyzed requirements for global derivatives (EQ, FICC, IR) regulatory projects to ensure compliance from a trade reporting perspective

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

• Resolved employee hardware and software issues (Averaging 80 employees per day)
• Deployed software packages companywide (Responsible for roughly 15,000 devices)
• Logged incidents and rerouted workflow using IBM Maximo
• Made quality assurance calls to guarantee employees satisfaction
• Set up servers running on Windows Server 2012 and managed Active Directory services
• ISO 20000 and ITIL work environment

Kuwait

• ISO 9001 & ITIL work environment
• Shell Scripted applications to run on company servers using Bash and PowerShell
• Monitored server racks activity in the main KOC data centre
• Created virtual machines for over 200 employees using Microsoft HyperV

Kuwait

• Responsible for diagnosing/troubleshooting personal computers running on Windows 7/8 & Linux (K)Ubuntu platforms
• Installing and configuring software on employee’s personal devices
• Making sure employees have up to date security credentials
• Registering new users and allocating space on Microsoft Outlook

Bachelor Of Computing, Computer Science

Queen's is a co-educational university, with more than 23,000 students, and with over 131,000 living alumni worldwide. Notable alumni.

High School

The Universal American School of Kuwait is a nonprofit, private co-educational, college-preparatory school serving a multi-national.