Experience

CommodityFirst

• Switzerland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer & Technical Architect

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  The Hague / London / Germany Technical Software Architect and hands-on contributing senior engineer for a strategic transformation programme: • I helped define the core services and API’s across the centralized suite of core pricing and modeling capabilities. • I am the lead engineer for real-time Front Office suite of trader tools for curves, visualizations, and pricing. • I built the real-time curves platform entirely utilizing AWS serverless-based micro-service architecture.



Imbellus

• Head of Platform | Engineering Manager and Platform Architect

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

  Los Angeles / London Head of Platform, coordinating team, delivery and architectural decisions, as well as a key individual contributor: • I engineered, built and supported significant portions of the current Platform services and Infrastructure. • I collaborated with LA-based AI, Data Science, Game and our Product teams to deliver new capabilities and services. Imbellus (acquired by Roblox and McKinsey & Co.) is an interdisciplinary team of learning scientists, game developers, artists, data… Show more Head of Platform, coordinating team, delivery and architectural decisions, as well as a key individual contributor: • I engineered, built and supported significant portions of the current Platform services and Infrastructure. • I collaborated with LA-based AI, Data Science, Game and our Product teams to deliver new capabilities and services. Imbellus (acquired by Roblox and McKinsey & Co.) is an interdisciplinary team of learning scientists, game developers, artists, data scientists, and AI engineers. We build simulation-based cognitive assessments that measure how people think, not just what they know. Show less



Riot Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - May 2018

  Los Angeles / Dublin, Ireland European Engineering Technical Lead. • I designed, built and globally rolled out new geolocation services and regional publishing capabilities within League of Legends to enable our publishing teams to improve regional player experience and outreach. • I assisted with hiring and growing our EU engineering capabilities. • Collaborated with LA-based Platform and Networking teams to deliver new infrastructure monitoring features to League of Legends and for upcoming new games.



Quedex Ltd

• Solution Architect

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

  Geneva / London COFCO Agri: Planning, tooling and architecting Big Data store data migration from legacy systems for transformation programme. Gazprom Marketing & Trading: Responsible for coordinating all architectural decisions for Gas & Power Operations, Front-Office Risk, Market & Credit Risk and Retail Gas & Power Trading, reporting to the Global Head of Architecture & Strategy.



Noble Group

• Singapore
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Head of EMEA Gas & Power Technology

  • Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

  London, United Kingdom Hands-on front office development manager, technical architect and senior developer, managing a team of 5, covering all front-to-back Gas & Power technology from trading, pricing, risk management to electronic confirmation, settlements and finance, working closely with front, middle and back-office operations for correct capture, life-cycle and processing. Firmwide re-engineering initiatives, embracing open source technologies, micro-services and provision of Big Data technologies… Show more Hands-on front office development manager, technical architect and senior developer, managing a team of 5, covering all front-to-back Gas & Power technology from trading, pricing, risk management to electronic confirmation, settlements and finance, working closely with front, middle and back-office operations for correct capture, life-cycle and processing. Firmwide re-engineering initiatives, embracing open source technologies, micro-services and provision of Big Data technologies services (utilizing Cassandra, Neo4j, Elasticsearch and Cloudera Hadoop) and rich user experience (utilizing HTML5, Bootstrap and AngularJS). Show less



Goldman Sachs

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2008 - Apr 2014

  London, United Kingdom Technical Lead for FICC Commodities Trading & Sales (Front Office) Technology. • Senior developer and technical lead, responsible for infrastructure and architecture decisions, and influencing the efforts of the global team, covering electronic, physical and financial commodities trading capabilities. • Senior developer leading and implementing a major re-engineering effort; replacing a 10+ year old electricity position and scheduling system with a new real-time system utilizing… Show more Technical Lead for FICC Commodities Trading & Sales (Front Office) Technology. • Senior developer and technical lead, responsible for infrastructure and architecture decisions, and influencing the efforts of the global team, covering electronic, physical and financial commodities trading capabilities. • Senior developer leading and implementing a major re-engineering effort; replacing a 10+ year old electricity position and scheduling system with a new real-time system utilizing a C#/WPF thin client, with a serviced-based, multi-tiered server-side model, utilizing a real-time publication framework based on Tibco Rendezvous, using Agile development practices. The roll-out resulted in significant reduction in operational costs, delivering more automation and accuracy for our users, and enabling the business to rapidly expand into new European markets where revenue opportunities exist. • Senior developer that led a number front-line support team related efforts to build tools to automate ready-for-business checks to reduce manual efforts, increase team productivity on value-add tasks, and built a follow-the-sun tasks tracking model to automate handover of tasks. Former Global Head of Industry Initiatives within FICC Interest Rate Derivatives (Front Office) Technology. Hands-on development manager, technical lead and developer. • Working in close collaboration with platforms vendors such as Markit Wire, LCH.ClearNet and CME, and other businesses leveraging our infrastructure and processing capabilities. As a senior developer, I was technical led on a number of highly visible projects that impacted clearing, trade capture, risk, clearing and straight-through processing capabilities for OTC products, working in partnership with the business teams. • I led a number of critical performance and scalability projects that provided clear benefit to trading and operation businesses, working on the C++ trading booking platform to attain improved performance and stability. Show less



Morgan Stanley

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President

  • Oct 2000 - Mar 2008

  London, United Kingdom EMEA Head of Front Office Credit Derivatives Technology, hands-on senior developer leading teams covering distributed pricing, real-time risk and risk management using compute grid infrastructure. We built the credit derivatives, loans, bonds and structured credit software trading platform from the ground up with a C# application and with multi-tiered Java servers, with pricing engines across several hundred linux machines. • I drove a major initiative to migrate the C++ distributed… Show more EMEA Head of Front Office Credit Derivatives Technology, hands-on senior developer leading teams covering distributed pricing, real-time risk and risk management using compute grid infrastructure. We built the credit derivatives, loans, bonds and structured credit software trading platform from the ground up with a C# application and with multi-tiered Java servers, with pricing engines across several hundred linux machines. • I drove a major initiative to migrate the C++ distributed pricing engines to a distributed, grid-computing Java pricing framework, whilst making significant improvements in scalability and performance over the old. Initial benefits were for the overnight batch pricing and risk management. Further to this, this led to developing and provided real-time risk to the trading desk, and real-time profit & loss attribution to the Controllers and Product Groups. • I collaborated with Quant/Strats on building a real-time distributed grid solution, to provide timely and accurate risk metrics and reports. Made significant low-level and configuration changes to continually performance tune the real-time pricing engines to reduce computation time and thus enable support for more risk measures. Additionally, I led the efforts to improve start-of-day risk reporting for the desk both through C++/Java code changes and configurations changes. • I managed and led the Exotic Basket pricing and Market Data modelling for Exotic Correlation curves and surfaces. This framework was then extended to support Base Correlation modelling for the trading desk. • Lead designer and senior developer in a "green-field" project, defining blue-prints and re-engineering of an old Repo Trading and Collateral Management system into a brand new distributed, multi-tiered, service-based architecture. Delivered new solution with multi-million dollar optimizations and performance improvements to the Firms collateral pledging facilities. Show less



SunGard Financial Systems - now part of FIS

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Infinity - Senior Developer/Manager

  • Jul 1999 - Oct 2000

  London, United Kingdom Transferred to SunGard as part of a systems acquisition from Riskcare, to head-up and manage team of 5 for the Infinity system,enhancing product in both technical and business aspects, ranging from modelling new securities, End Of Day processing, Risk Management enhancements, through to Profit and Loss reporting.



Riskcare

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Oct 1996 - Jul 1999

  London, United Kingdom Lead/Senior developer and architect for significant elements of Riskcare’s Equimax (Equity & Equity Derivatives) platform extensions to Infinity’s Fin++ and Application Frameworks.Provided in-depth knowledge and consultancy on the use of Infinity’s applications, the object and database extensions, both in-house and for a number of key clients at on-site projects, across numerous European countries, as well as working closely with Infinity personnel in Mountain View, California.



Credit Suisse

• Switzerland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst/Programmer

  • Apr 1995 - Oct 1996

  London, United Kingdom Developed trading extensions to the core Summit system, on site in New York at Summit’s HQ, for the capture of interest rate, foreign exchange, and OTC traded derivative products. Activities ranged from adding new functionality to trading screens and the core libraries, support and maintenance, and regression testing.



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Apr 1994 - Apr 1995

  London, United Kingdom Business Process Re-engineering of Pharmaceutical Business workflow.