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Boulder, CO, US

Everywhere, US

Vacaville, CA, US

Vienna, Virginia, US

Miami, US

• Smoothly doubled the size of the engineering team.
• Developed automated market making system and infrastructure.
• Led project migrating legacy services from Typescript to Scala.
• Led project adding Solana support to decentralized exchange platform, supporting cross-chain trades between EVM and Solana.
• Designed trustless limit order-based exchange platform.
• Instituted software engineering best practices such as design reviews, unit & integration testing, continuous delivery, managed database migrations.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Group Tech Lead building the developer experience for v2 of the Twitter API. Previously led continuous delivery efforts to migrate all Twitter's services to automated continuous deployment. Previously tech lead for.
• Maintained service continuity for enterprise data business ($425mm revenue) after 90% RIF.
• Group Tech Lead for "Developer Journey" teams (2 teams, 15 engineers) responsible for managing the developer experience for 2.5mm Twitter API developers.
• Led effort to enable Continuous Delivery by default across Twitter.
• Designed and implemented expansion of data streaming product offering beyond enterprise customers to SMB, non-commercial, and non-profit customers.
• Maintained and supported flagship product driving Twitter’s $425mm data licensing business.

• Lead developer for financial software company developing crypto-currency software to resolve regulatory business issues.
• Developed scalable, distributed futures exchange matching engine in Python and associated clients in CoffeeScript and Python using WAMPv2 and RESTful API, maintaining strict consistency for account management with.
• Migrated Python-based infrastructure to Scala/MongoDB to support additional scaling out and robustness.
• Managed UI development for adaptation to PaaS, pivoting business to retail mass-market turnkey exchange service, including building front end for Sputnik exchange engine integrating UI design into CoffeeScript software.
• Coordinated software development releases, collaborating with engineers and system architects.
• Designed automated market-making algorithms and software.

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Directed development and operations for a leading manufacturer of open source robots with university research clients. Led engineering efforts to develop new products, including market analysis, product requirements.
• Led a company turnaround, restored profitability, and achieved a 150% YoY growth. Efforts included:o Developed an inventory control system and implemented new financial controls.o Eliminated unprofitable products.
• Made negative gross margins positive by implementing Internet store integration with QuickBooks and integrated manufacturing and inventory systems with in-house proprietary systems.

• Conceptualized and created a company that filled gaps in the extreme sports photography market by designing autonomous UAV flying robots to track athletes. Managed engineering, development, business planning, and.
• Identified a customized need and developed a business plan and product development plan to design and sell autonomous flying robots to sports photographers.
• Enabled commercially available Micro-UAV athlete tracking technology by designing and implementing autonomous UAV prototypes.
• Recognized for cutting-edge technical innovations and invited to speak and demo Micro-UAV technologies at TEDxSiliconAlley and MakerFaire. Profiled in cover articles in WIRED, Popular Science, and Gizmodo.

New York, New York, US

• Led engineering efforts for Treasury bond trading desk for $40B global investment, banking, management, and securities firm. Directly supported traders and trained the technology department to support software.
• Designed a real-time high-frequency pricing engine for cash treasuries and futures trading; making voice and automated trading more coherent and achieving higher levels of profitability.
• Enabled traders to hedge treasury futures with swaptions and curve options; developed a pricing model for treasury futures that incorporated when-issued bonds and the last-week option.
• Retained fixed-income futures trading clients by publishing a quarterly fixed-income futures roll analysis.

New York, NY, US

• Served as a Software Engineer Intern supporting internal product development for a $36B global financial services firm. Developed automated infrastructure and product integrations.
• Created a logistic-based regression model of loan performance that produced more accurate pricing for a $60M loan portfolio and corrected non-performing loan marks by $100K.
• Designed and implemented mortgage back security pricing models in C++ to automate pricing and create a trading access infrastructure; satisfying federal requirements for stress testing.

Santa Clara, California, US

Washington, DC, US

Officer candidate at Quantico. Disenrolled with stress fracture.

As president of CDI, LLC, I developed and managed a ballot initiative campaign. This project involved managing a team of lobbyists and legislators, coordinating polling, developing ballot language, hiring and managing subcontractors to handle communications, signature collection, finances, and fund-raising.

• Produced rapid-response short video pieces for publication on the Internet, working with opposition research staff to produce pieces from inception through storyboard, production, and publication
• Produced opposition research public web pages
• Distilled opposition research into short, easily-understood messages well-suited for the Internet medium
• Trained other party staffers in the production of short video pieces for Internet publication

Own, operate, manage, and drive for rallyteam.

• Developed plan to open and operate a music café in the “arts and entertainment” district of downtown Oakland
• Navigated city permitting process in order to obtain building, alcohol, zoning, health, cabaret, and design review permits
• Negotiated highly favorable ten year lease with significant amount of free rent, and favorable termination of lease when construction budget exceeded available funds
• Supervised architects, kitchen designers, and construction contractors and negotiated construction contract

• Founded and led a cryptographic web server firm, growing to global market share leader ahead of competitive offerings by Microsoft and Netscape with $3M in revenue and 35 employees. Sold the company for $42M, a 14x.
• Integrated Apache and open source products, cultivated key relationships with certification authorities, and licensed technology patents from RSA Data Security, Inc. to develop the first SSL-encrypting webserver.
• Established C2Net as a market leader and sold cryptography software worldwide by forming subsidiaries in four countries on three continents to successfully bypass United States-based export controls on software.
• Founding Board Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Founded the OpenSSL Project.

• Developed plan and financial models used for both fund raising and operational management of offshore data haven business
• Solicited and negotiated equity financing
• Managed launch publicity; Hired and managed public relations director
• Managed attorney relationships to develop a full organizational understanding of related legal issues

New York, NY, US

Ms, Mathematics In Finance

Math, Farsi, Arabic, Serbo-Croatian

Ba, Economics

Physics, Math, Computer Science