• Responsible for the backend infrastructure supporting Aladdin’s data

warehousing solution

• Completed data modeling exercise to represent our IBOR data estate in a

modular and end-user friendly schema

• Coordinated with DBAs to set up low-latency data replication between

Sybase ASE and our Snowflake instances

• Implemented centralized exception monitoring solution for data quality

issues

• Created an application usage data pipeline for Aladdin applications using

Protobuf and Kafka for transport and Spark for transformation and

storage (as Parquet)

• Migrated the access and generation of usage data to Snowflake using

Kafka Connect framework

• Solution delivers highly granular and customizable application event

data to client facing marketing teams in real-time

• Developed a real-time data orchestration framework to handle the

execution of the analytical calculators that feed into Aladdin’s trading,

compliance and portfolio management tools using several interrelated

Java processes over a Cassandra-based data layer

• Managed a small team of developers dedicated to building and supporting this infrastructure

• Mentored junior members of my team and received consistently positive

feedback about my support and the development opportunities I

provided as a manager

• Optimized usage of compute resources and built data orchestration

processes for batch reporting production as part of the BlackRock Data

Services department

• Chief architect and developer for a project that reduced the number of

reports generated by Aladdin’s nightly risk reporting process by more 80%