Resume

SUMMARY

I graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I have since worked mainly in the finance industry, writing Python and C#-based software for hedge funds and sub-prime mortgage firms. I have developed software in many fast-paced, high-risk environments and understand the importance of writing scalable, testable, and maintainable code.

Current Role

Currently, I work as a Senior Full-Stack Developer at Abacus Group, writing internal and external-facing web applications in Python/Flask/ReactJS. I also spend about 30% of my time managing a team of 8 Romanian outsource developers, who assist us with our legacy .NET application and our corporate Wordpress website.

Future Role(s)

I am currently looking for Full Stack Developer/DevOps roles. I am most skilled with Python/Flask/ReactJS, but I'd be happy to discuss other opportunities. I am excited about creating scalable applications with AWS, utilizing a RESTful microservices-based architecture.

Hobbies/Interests

Outside of the office, I play guitar and develop ecommerce sites for friends and family. I co-founded an educational non-profit that delivers donated technology to impoverished schools around the globe. I am also a member at a neighborhood synthetic biology lab in Oakland.

EXPERIENCE

I co-founded Abacus with 5 other members, and began as a full-stack engineer, working closely with clients on fast-paced, mission-critical projects. My clients are typically hedge funds, so the projects are often geared towards front-office trading operations and back-office compliance operations. I have experience with Sungard's Front Arena, Bloomberg, Markit data, Risk Metrics, and Eze, and integrating those 3rd-party vendors with a Python/Django web application.

I developed a proprietary front-office trading platform, written in Django/Python that provided Profit & Loss and Risk measurements to the traders and portfolio managers. During my stay, it handled over $3 billion dollars in traded volume. I later developed a back-office Dropbox-style file syncing platform to deliver files to-and-from clients' networks to multiple broker platforms. I also managed a 10-person team in Romania, as well as continuing to develop both internal-facing and external-facing web applications, using ASP.NET MVC 5 against a SQL Server database. We are currently transitioning this platform to Node.js/Express.

I worked at Round Table as a senior software engineer, integrating 3rd party risk analysis systems (Front Arena, RiskMetrics, Markit data) for derivative instruments, and writing statistical and reconciliation tools for C-level executives in Python/Pandas, displaying results within a Django web interface.

EDUCATION

• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1999 - 2003
• Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

SKILLS

• Languages/Tools: Python, ReactJS, Flask/Django, C#, Git, RESTFul APIs, Microservices
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
• Platforms: AWS, Wordpress, Shopify, BigCommerce

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Counter Culture Labs is a bio-hackerspace geared towards the synthetic biology industry. I am still new to the space, but I hope to use my software skills to automate lab procedures as well as bridging the gap between software and wetlab engineers.

Sheerwater grew out of Counter Culture Labs with the goal of providing the world with education and simple tools to test and understand the contents of their water. We hope to use data visualizations and interactive mapping to identify potential problems at the city, neighborhood, street levels.

The Nika Project brings educational resources worldwide to promote access to technology for learning. We collect and refurbish donated equipment to repurpose for educational purposes worldwide. In order to obtain sustainability, the team trains the staff to be independent with the operational function, educational uses, and maintenance of all donated equipment.

During the summer of 2014, I joined a team of 8 volunteers for 2 weeks to bring educational tools to a remote special education school in remote South Africa. I also setup their first networked computer lab of 18 donated machines . This project serves as the precursor to The Nika Project above.