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Florida, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Geode is one of the world’s largest investment management firms, managing over $1.5 trillion in assets and specializing in systematic strategies.
• Migrated to AWS with Terraform IaC, automating data pipelines to enhance workflows for data engineering and quantitative research and cutting environment setup times by 70%.
• Designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions for Spring Boot, Python, and.NET, standardizing deployment processes and reducing errors by 25%.
• Trained QA teams to use Postman, Playwright, and Python-based BDD tools, increasing test coverage by 30% and ensuring research and portfolio management platform reliability.
• Improved developer workflows by introducing WSL2 and VS Code containers, reducing onboarding time by 70% and accelerating iteration cycles for systematic strategy tools.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• LiquidX is a leading institutional trading platform for trade-finance-backed securities. Reported directly to the CTO, managing the firm’s LiquidX 360 trading platform deployed across multiple global regions.
• Automated six Azure environments using Terraform, enabling scaling to six regions, increasing trading volume six-fold.
• Built CI/CD.NET/Go pipelines in Azure DevOps, reducing deployment times by 85% and improving system reliability.
• Collaborated with the Head of InfoSec for a SOC2 audit by implementing compliance pipelines and boosting client trust.
• Implemented Prometheus monitoring, adding alert thresholds and dashboards, improving incident response times by 30%.
• Automated database migrations with Flyway, reducing downtime during updates and streamlining deployment workflows.

Long Beach, New York, United States

• AuthID.AI provides biometric authentication solutions. Reported to the CTO, leading DevOps, database, and IaC initiatives for a distributed team of 13 engineers.
• Automated 19 AWS environments, cutting provisioning time and increasing deployment frequency by 60%.
• Migrated environments from AWS to Azure, leveraging Terraform to improve efficiency and cutting costs by 20%.
• Updated Java/.NET services, enabling automated CI/CD pipelines in AzureDevOps and reducing time-to-market by 50%.
• Led SOC2 audit preparation by implementing security controls and automated compliance pipelines, enhancing client trust.
• Deployed Prometheus monitoring with custom thresholds, cutting false alerts by 99% and improving system uptime.

Danvers, Massachusetts, United States

• OV Loop specializes in voice-enabled communications and payments. Led DevOps, SysOps, API development, and database engineering for a distributed team.
• Unified three teams across five tech stacks (.NET, NodeJS, Go, Python, Java) in six months.
• Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, cutting build times by 90% and enabling up to 15 daily deployments.
• Added 1,200+ automated tests, improving quality and cutting defects by 50%.
• Modernized.NET apps to.NET Core with Linux containers on Azure AKS, lowering costs.
• Deployed SonarQube security scans, resolving 80% of critical vulnerabilities in three months.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Promoted four times, culminating in a director role co-leading North American software engineering and global DevOps processes for a $100M mobile payments platform.
• Automated QA testing with 1,500+ tests, cutting regressions by 85% and cycle time from 2 weeks to 20 minutes.
• Adopted DevOps practices, cutting feature time-to-market by 70% and boosting deployment frequency 5x.
• Built CI/CD pipelines with security gates, reducing code vulnerabilities by 85% in three months.
• Added performance metrics to pipelines, improving transaction processing performance by 10x.
• Scaled the engineering team from 16 to 60, supporting growth to a $100M acquisition.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Founded and managed a market-neutral equity fund, delivering consistent returns with minimal correlation to the market.
• Built quantitative models achieving 11% annual portfolio returns with a -0.08 correlation to the S&P 500
• Automated analytics and stock screening, streamlining alpha identification and efficiency.
• Generated $4M in research sales to hedge funds, showcasing innovative investment insights.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Built a quantitative factor research platform generating six billion yearly records across key categories, including quality, valuation, growth, sentiment, and momentum.
• Developed equity models leveraging data to identify systematic investment opportunities.
• Performed new factor research and expanded tools for portfolio construction, stock selection, and risk management.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-founded and managed a long/short equity fund, delivering top-decile performance through quantitative, technical, and fundamental strategies.
• Achieved 33% returns in 18 months, ranking top 10% in PerTrac, doubling S&P 500 long-only returns.
• Built stock research systems and quantitative models to identify alpha opportunities.
• Designed portfolio frameworks integrating valuation, risk metrics, and technical analysis.
• Secured private funding and established operations within six weeks.
• Featured speaker at three conferences on quantitative strategies and hedge fund trends.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Expanded multi-manager global equity portfolio assets from $6 billion to $42 billion by integrating quantitative and fundamental research.
• Outperformed the S&P 500 by 550 basis points annually using custom factors and insights in collaboration with fundamental analysts performing discretionary research and stock selection.
• Managed autos and semiconductors sector portfolios during gaps in coverage, with top performance across all sectors.
• Developed systems to evaluate analysts, enhancing decision-making and portfolio success.
• Presented investment strategies to clients, driving asset growth and stronger relationships.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Enhanced benchmark and performance systems, supporting growth from $40 billion to $201 billion AUM through improved data quality and index methodologies.
• Built benchmark monitoring and rebalancing systems, driving alpha gains across portfolios.
• Expanded benchmark coverage from 200 to 1,200 indices, including GDP- and cap-weighted indices.
• Developed pipelines for index monitoring, improving benchmark tracking and data accuracy.
• Enabled new products by expanding the firm’s security master with 6,000+ equities and 12,000 bonds.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Enhanced portfolio accounting operations for institutional and mutual fund clients by automating tasks, improving data accuracy by 30%, and ensuring compliance with portfolio mandates.

New York, New York, United States

Automated corporate action processes, reducing department headcount by 85% while maintaining transaction accuracy.

Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Supported financial operations by analyzing program budgets and streamlined cost-reporting and RFP processes.

Mba, Finance

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Completed undergraduate engineering prerequisites at Johns Hopkins before pursuing an MS in Computer Science.

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance

Bs, Economics-Finance

Graduated with highest honors: Omicron Delta Epsilon, Order of Omega, and Falcon Society (Bentley’s highest undergraduate honor)