Experience

Duality Group

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • May 2021 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area I rebuilt the entire software stack from the ground up. - Moved from ~30 external consultants to ~3 internal developers - Moved single-server mongodb atlas deployment in-house to a sharded cluster, increasing throughput by ~100x - Moved from single-server computation to distributed computation model, time to execute has remained constant as our model complexity increased by ~100x while decreasing AWS compute cost - Restructuring our system allowed much higher quantitative researcher… Show more I rebuilt the entire software stack from the ground up. - Moved from ~30 external consultants to ~3 internal developers - Moved single-server mongodb atlas deployment in-house to a sharded cluster, increasing throughput by ~100x - Moved from single-server computation to distributed computation model, time to execute has remained constant as our model complexity increased by ~100x while decreasing AWS compute cost - Restructuring our system allowed much higher quantitative researcher productivity, leading to a steep increase in number of models and complexity of models with the same size team - CI/CD and our calculation series tagging allows multiple deploys a week if required, down from 4-8 weeks per deploy initially - Rolled development from expensive virtual desktops to laptops, saving ~150k/yr

• Director

  • Jul 2019 - May 2021

  Greater New York City Area Hired as the first full-time engineer at the hedge fund. In the end I was in charge of rebuilding the entire code base and infrastructure of the fund from the ground up. Initially responsible for supporting the trading and quant teams by establishing best practices and remediating legacy anti-patterns. I was also responsible for evaluating database throughput and adding the first monitoring into the system. Through this work it became clear that the legacy system would strangle the fund and… Show more Hired as the first full-time engineer at the hedge fund. In the end I was in charge of rebuilding the entire code base and infrastructure of the fund from the ground up. Initially responsible for supporting the trading and quant teams by establishing best practices and remediating legacy anti-patterns. I was also responsible for evaluating database throughput and adding the first monitoring into the system. Through this work it became clear that the legacy system would strangle the fund and either it died or the fund did.



QL Gaming Group (acq by Entercom)

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Feb 2018 - Jun 2019

  Greater New York City Area I work alongside the CTO to build a multi product technology platform that is taking advantage of regulation change in the sports industry. Leveraging both affiliate marketing and subscription models to gain traction in multiple regions of the country as regulations change.

• Head Of Architecture

  • Apr 2017 - Feb 2018

  Greater New York City Area I was hired to build out an architecture that allowed multiple production applications related to fantasy sports or sports betting to be built off of the same foundation. A set of services that handled data syncing, single sign on, deployment, monitoring, and common development methods. Services were build on Python 3.6 using asyncio. Rest interfaces were migrated to a GraphQL interface during this period. Built and launched a mobile fantasy sports app during this time.



Knewton

• United States
• E-learning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SRE Manager

  • Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

  I lead a team of SRE engineers who are currently rebuilding the monitoring and alerting framework for the company. We are also finishing up a restructure of our AWS deployment which will reduce costs by $600k/yr.

• Senior Database Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

  Greater New York City Area Responsible for maintaining uptime, reliability, and performance of multiple Cassandra clusters in multiple environments. Disaster recovery and backup tasks are also the responsibility of me and my team. We are not limited to maintaining a current Cassandra infrastructure and constant research and investigation is ongoing into new datastores.



Marigold

• United States
• Marketing Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Lead Database Administrator

  • Dec 2014 - Sep 2015

  I managed a team of 4 exceptional individuals working to improve the data layer of the business. In 2014 my team and I improved data backup reliability by orders of magnitude while saving the company almost $1M in costs. In 2015 we began a re-architecture of the stack to include isolated service layers to route access to the database through stateless HTTP APIs that were built by my team using Tornado (Python asynchronous framework). The Database stack was moved from Chef managment to… Show more I managed a team of 4 exceptional individuals working to improve the data layer of the business. In 2014 my team and I improved data backup reliability by orders of magnitude while saving the company almost $1M in costs. In 2015 we began a re-architecture of the stack to include isolated service layers to route access to the database through stateless HTTP APIs that were built by my team using Tornado (Python asynchronous framework). The Database stack was moved from Chef managment to ansible, new hardware was rotated in and old hardware recapitalized, and combinations of OS and Hardware tuning increased database performance 20x. A new backup process began being rolled out that would improve recovery time significantly and serve a cost reduction to the organization by a further 250k year over year in addition to the 250k savings by rolling off of legacy archiving systems.

• Database Administrator

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2014

  Greater New York City Area Assist in managing a large production mongoDB noSQL database cluster. I am involved in cross team and inter-company projects in order to coordinate access to the data systems. I also maintain and develop a large base of maintanence, recovery, backup, and archving scripts. Additionally I teach a weekly course at the office : Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.



SBS Pittsburgh

• Lead Developer

  • Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

  Joined SBS as lead developer to take the company from a small consulting firm to a growing subscription based software company by realizing an already existing pricing program into an updated, portable, and marketable package. I assisted in the writing of a business plan as well as modeling projections for the company to present to investors to acquire funding. I am currently constructing a single-page web-app demo of the product and we are looking for funding to develop the full suite of… Show more Joined SBS as lead developer to take the company from a small consulting firm to a growing subscription based software company by realizing an already existing pricing program into an updated, portable, and marketable package. I assisted in the writing of a business plan as well as modeling projections for the company to present to investors to acquire funding. I am currently constructing a single-page web-app demo of the product and we are looking for funding to develop the full suite of solutions. Show less



We-Care.com

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Developer

  • Mar 2013 - Aug 2013

  Mineola NY Joined we-care to assist the core-development team in moving the data at we-care from file based to MongoDB. A sharded MongoDB cluster was created that accepted data in real-time from our 4 million user base by a ZeroMQ messaging network. Analysis is run on these databases every day using Hadoop to aggregate the big-data into analytics that allow our team to guide the company along the path of most success. These analytics are displayed on a frontent javascript platform that can initialize… Show more Joined we-care to assist the core-development team in moving the data at we-care from file based to MongoDB. A sharded MongoDB cluster was created that accepted data in real-time from our 4 million user base by a ZeroMQ messaging network. Analysis is run on these databases every day using Hadoop to aggregate the big-data into analytics that allow our team to guide the company along the path of most success. These analytics are displayed on a frontent javascript platform that can initialize on-demand Hadoop jobs, display Hadoop output as vital graphs of company performance, as well as generate a live feed of data from MongoDB. I am also working in BackboneJs for several UI projects at we-care. Show less



Pennsylvania State University

• Research Assistant

  • Apr 2009 - Jun 2012

  Senior graduate student researcher for Dr. Anna Stasto. Wrote several programs and algorithms in both C and Fortran for solving and executing data analysis on integro-differential equations. The solving programs I developed allow our group to be the only one in the world to analyze these equations with full spatial dependence. The use of large computing clusters utilizing MPI was required and I ran the link between our group and the cluster maintained by the… Show more Senior graduate student researcher for Dr. Anna Stasto. Wrote several programs and algorithms in both C and Fortran for solving and executing data analysis on integro-differential equations. The solving programs I developed allow our group to be the only one in the world to analyze these equations with full spatial dependence. The use of large computing clusters utilizing MPI was required and I ran the link between our group and the cluster maintained by the university, additionally determining the most cost-effective approach to using the high performance computing systems. I also traveled to several conferences in both the US and Europe to give talks on this research.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

  Ran the recitation and/or laboratory section of both first and second semester physics courses. Received an award for teaching excellence in the 2011 academic year.



Penn State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Private Physics Tutor

  • Aug 2009 - Jan 2012

  I hold private tutoring sessions in introductory physics for students, this is not affiliated with penn state but I can be found on the physics departments website under tutors for undergraduates.



Binghamton University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Apr 2005 - Apr 2007

  Assisted with pen-and-paper calculations in high energy particle collisions with Dr. Charles A. Nelson. I worked with several other students collaborating in a group on the same project. Our group was responsible for checking long calculations by hand as well as by numerical methods.

• Laboratory Assistant

  • Jul 2003 - Apr 2007

  Led demonstrations in various principles of physics from mechanics to electromagnetism and radia- tion, both with and without calculus.