I architect and ship full-stack financial technology systems—from React frontends and .NET Core APIs down to high-performance SQL Server stored procedures and Snowflake data pipelines. At ICE, I own features end-to-end where latency matters and data integrity is non-negotiable.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Full-stack architect and individual contributor on ICE’s data and trading technology platform, spanning frontend development through database and data pipeline engineering.
• Build and maintain React component libraries and interactive UIs for internal trading and data management applications
• Design and develop .NET Core Web API services powering data ingestion, transformation, and distribution workflows
• Author highly optimized SQL Server stored procedures for complex business logic; lead SQL performance tuning efforts that reduced critical query execution times
• Architect data pipelines feeding Snowflake, enabling analytics and reporting across large-scale financial datasets
• Drive overall application architecture decisions across the stack, balancing performance, maintainability, and developer experience
• Evangelize emerging AI technologies within the engineering organization; develop custom Claude AI skills wrapped in plugins to accelerate team workflows and automate repetitive development tasks
• Collaborate across teams as a technical SME for full-stack patterns, database optimization, and modern development practices
Technologies: React, TypeScript, .NET Core, C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, Snowflake, REST APIs, CI/CD, PowerShell, Claude AI / LLM tooling
2016 — 2022
2016 — 2022
New York City Metropolitan Area
Technical lead and senior IC across two strategic electronic trading platforms, driving modernization and operational maturity.
• Reference Data Platform: Led migration of ETT’s non-instrument client reference data service from legacy MVC to RESTful Web API, improving API consistency and enabling integration with downstream trading systems
• Introduced DevExtreme UI toolkit leveraging Knockout.js, standardizing the frontend component library across the team
• Implemented configurable, AOP-based logging and instrumentation with real-time Splunk monitoring, significantly reducing mean time to diagnose production issues
• Built end-to-end Continuous Delivery pipeline integrating BitBucket, Jenkins, and Ansible Tower, cutting release cycle time and manual deployment overhead
• Order Management System: Served as performance SME for a trader-facing OMS built on a proprietary WPF framework, identifying and resolving critical bottlenecks in the rendering and data-binding layers
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Web API, WPF, Knockout.js, JavaScript, HTML5, DevExtreme, NHibernate, Oracle, Splunk, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, BitBucket
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
New York City
Senior technical lead on a cross-asset global trading application for Morgan Stanley, driving a major re-architecture from WinForms to WPF.
• Led re-architecture of Stix, a cross-asset global GUI for ticket entry, migrating critical modules from WinForms to WPF/Prism while simultaneously delivering new trader-requested functionality
• Provided technical mentorship and code review guidance to offshore development teams, establishing best practices that improved code quality and reduced defect rates
• Implemented CI pipeline with automated code quality metrics, giving management visibility into technical debt and build health
Technologies: C#, WPF, Prism, Infragistics, Pub-Sub messaging
2012 — 2014
2012 — 2014
New York City
Built real-time trader-facing GUI for ticket entry, position monitoring, and PnL tracking on the fixed income desk.
• Developed expression-based styling engine enabling traders to configure visual alerts on position and PnL thresholds without code changes
• Built custom editors for displaying bond prices in fractions of 32nds, meeting trader workflow requirements that off-the-shelf controls couldn’t satisfy
• Served as DevExpress controls SME, optimizing heavy-interaction grid performance for real-time data streaming
Technologies: C#, WPF, Prism, DevExpress, Reactive Extensions, ActiveMQ
2009 — 2012
2009 — 2012
New York City
Consulting technologist delivering trading infrastructure, monitoring, and risk systems across Tier 1 financial institutions including JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Cantor Fitzgerald.
• Designed distributed infrastructure spanning on-premises and AWS cloud environments for a prime brokerage platform
• Built a real-time Business Activity Monitor processing TibCo/EMS message streams with WPF visualization and Oracle persistence
• Developed a counterparty exposure calculation system for JPMorgan during a major investment bank bankruptcy, delivering under extreme time pressure
• Architected a Custom Basket Management System for Citigroup using FpML messaging and GemFire distributed caching
Technologies: C#, WPF, Silverlight, AWS EC2, Reactive Extensions, TibCo/EMS, Oracle, SQL Server, GemFire, FpML, WCF
Education
Virginia Tech
MSc
1993 — 1995
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
BSc
1986 — 1993