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Chicago, Il, Us

Urbana, Illinois, Us

- Directing application development strategy, leading a team (10-50 people) in varying regulatory environments (from loose to stricter).- Managing critical projects from concept to completion or steady-states, emphasizing lightweight organizational processes for being able to delivery high-quality, and reliable solutions.- Cultivating a continuous delivery culture, automating key parts of testing, deployment, and resolving production issues, while ensuring regulatory compliance.- Bridging tech and business, developing integrated roadmaps and stakeholder trust.- Cultivating top talent, fostering transparency and accountability.- Extensive AWS cloud architecture and building data pipelines for machine learning integration for industry-leading platforms.- Controlling budgets and managing talent for optimal project outcomes.- Mitigating security risks, enforcing rigorous quality assurance, and improving application performance.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led multiple development teams across two SaaS products delivering backend and microfrontend web apps for portfolio analytics, performance, and risk management at family offices, pension and endowment funds. Backend stacks: Scala, ZIO2, Cats in Kubernetes and TypeScript AWS Lambda backends for REST and GraphQL APIs.Frontends: TypeScript React, microfrontends

Oakland, California, Us

Led and managed Services team that built high availability cloud infrastructure, reliable delivery pipelines, and scalable backend services for collecting product analytics.Using Ruby, Rails, Haskell, PureScript, TypeScript, Nix, NixOS, CI/CD, Terraform, AWS, streamlining delivery pipelines

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Automated and defined software delivery standards, protocols and contracts for full development lifecycle (development environments -> continuous integration dependencies -> deployed environments) of data, and processing services infrastructure using Nix, NixOS, AWS, Scala, and Rails.Deployments were all built with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and application validation to identify potential issues before going live to minimize MTTR during bad node deploys and intermediate deployment process checks to avoid taking actions that would cause downtime.

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead Site Reliability Engineer for acquisitions.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Building long-running stateful services to integrate multiple channels and integrations into Desk.com's customer service SaaS. Scala, Akka, Ruby, Rails, Linux/Unix, Chef, AWS.

Clients have included: Citadel Investment Group (twice), Red Hat, Bank of America, Stark Investments and others.Designing and developing risk management and reporting systems and frameworks using Erlang OTP, Ruby, C++ & Java across different trading client projects. Built CI/CD automation and tooling based on Git and Linux for kernel build integrations at RedHat.Consulting for hedge funds and technology clients to help design and implement full-cycle front-to-back office software integration.

Designed, developed and tested software for a peer-to-peer B2B trading system written in Java.

Paris, Fr

Developed object-oriented (OO) risk management library in C++ and later Java, based on trader and quantitative researcher requirements.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed, developed and deployed web based applications for external and internal (Fixed Income) clients. Interfaced with internal clients and translated business requirements into technical projects.