Andy Feldman Email & Phone Number

United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Various rolesAs a software engineer on the brokerage, banking and investing platforms:* Implemented an order management system to route trades to executing brokers* Implemented a scalable, persistent message queue that became the standard within Wealthfront* Helped implement debit card support and wire/RTP transfers for the cash account* On-call for investing, brokerage and banking areas, ensuring that investment accounts traded correctly and that money/securities moved correctly in and out of WealthfrontAs Director of Backend Engineering:Technical leadership role (non-manager). Responsible for the direction and vision for the backend platform as a whole, with mentorship and design review responsibilities, while still writing and reviewing significant amounts of code myself to implement that vision.* Upgraded the entire backend from Java 11 to Java 17 without any significant incidents* Added better type safety to our cross-service communication framework* Led our response to Log4Shell, patching our entire backend the same day it was public* Beloved by all for making countless improvements to the quality of life and velocity for all engineers, and always being available to help people who are stuck on tricky issuesWealthfront’s backend platform is a Java + MariaDB service-oriented architecture with about 50 services, datacenter hosted (two physical locations in a hot/warm configuration).

Minneapolis, Mn

* Frontend/backend engineering (C#/SQL): implemented hedging strategies on our in-house analysis platform (front office) and asset management system (middle office). Significantly expanded automated test coverage and formalized manual test process.* Quantitative research: analyzed hedge strategies to reduce costs or market risk* Portfolio management: prepared and reviewed derivatives trades to dynamically hedge insurance portfolios totaling $100 billion, with typical daily trades of $1 billion notional* Sales: presented to independent insurance agents about Allianz's hedging strength* Leadership: managed five engineers/analysts, and mentored others

Minneapolis, Mn

* Developed and priced new life insurance and annuity products* Used rapid prototyping in Excel/VBA to quickly evaluate and compare product concepts* Developed Allianz's then-flagship variable annuity product: $20+ billion in sales