Looking to build robust, scalable and modern web applications in a collegial, collaborative and innovative environment that is open to change, trial and error, moving quickly and unencumbered by the status quo.
Experience
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2016 — Now
2016 — Now
Honolulu, HI
Co-Founder of a travel startup building location-based storytelling and gaming applications immersing users in local culture and art
2015 — Now
2015 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Software engineer part of development team that is responsible for development of Sherpaa's telemedicine application
* Mainly responsible for server side development utilizing a Python technology stack which included the following tools and technologies--Python 2.x, MongoDB (including Percona Server for MongoDB/Percona TokuMX)
* Developed new and enhanced existing functionality around electronic prescriptions
* Contributed enhancements to our development environment and workflow which utilizes tools including Vagrant, VirtualBox, Chef
2012 — 2015
2012 — 2015
New York City Metropolitan Area
* Manage a significantly sized and geographically distributed development team, including consulting staff, to build a web based internal application comprising of customer relationship management, content management, reporting and numerous proprietary functionality custom built to support all business lines using a technology stack consisting primarily of an ASP.NET MVC backend and JavaScript/CSS/HTML front end stack.
* Provide technical leadership and direction by organizing senior developers and empowering them to provide continued technical direction and architectural oversight on entire application stack including areas such as front-end stack and tools, back-end frameworks, database systems, continuous integration platform, deployment platform, front end frameworks, front end development methodology, mobile strategy, design strategy and all other aspects typical of a web application development effort.
* Maintain extensive hands on experience by constantly evaluating, testing, and devising prototypes/proof of concepts of various new tools, frameworks and libraries to potentially incorporate into workflow and stack such as Bower, Npm, Grunt, Gulp, AngularJS, continuous integration with TeamCity, deployment with Octopus Deploy, TFS for source control, Bootstrap and increased usage of open source software.
* Help to define, re-evaluate and continually refine development process and workflow with a core built upon Agile methodologies.
2008 — 2011
2008 — 2011
New York City Metropolitan Area
* Developed and maintained various applications supporting the Quantitative Strategies Group
* Enhanced and maintained applications for back-testing various strategies of the Quantitative Strategies Group
* Enhanced and maintained multiple data feeds for supporting the various strategies—both intra-day/real time data for production trading and historical data for back-testing
* Developed applications in Python, KDB+ database/Q language, SQL, shell scripts and proprietary applications/systems on a Linux platform
* Worked with various historical and intraday data sets from various vendors including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, FactSet and Sungard--data included both technical (historical prices, both end of day and intraday) and fundamental data (earnings, recommendations)
* Solved various historical data issues such as data quality, integrity and corporate action handling
* Liaised with different vendors for production outage support and data quality investigations
* Assisted portfolio manager and quantitative analysts in back-testing and analyzing model improvements to all strategies
Education
Stanford University
Master of Science (MS)
2000 — 2001
Binghamton University
Bachelor of Science (BS)
1995 — 1999