Adam Cao

Financial Software Consultant at Adaptive Financial Consulting
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(386) 825-5501
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UK
Languages
  • Cantonese Limited working proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency

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Brad Duncan

Adam was the project lead for a SaaS service between April-October 2020, and I can safely say that within a six-month time span, he demonstrated a high level of engineering excellence. I initially connected with Adam as an end-user of a service he developed. Early on, we discussed the SaaS offering, some of the challenges with scalability and the roadmap for the development of the service. From our discussions, we established a working relationship which led to our time together. Adam demonstrated innovation management, organisational agility and process management to exceptional levels as a project lead. He was meticulous in his planning and execution of objectives for the platform, which directly translated to the platforms high success. I found on multiple occasions when roadblocks were about to be hit, Adam had already anticipated and adjusted the direction to continue the development of the project. Adam's decisions and direction were backed by data, utilising customer feedback, computational metrics, market research and open discussions within the team. One thing that stood out throughout the project was his extraordinary drive for technical learning. He continuously pushed the envelope for both himself and the team in testing and implementing new technologies. I observed Adam's technological development in technologies such as MySQL, Lua, infrastructure and automation. Early on, he established agile as the software development cycle process of choice and embodied the methodologies and principles it aims to achieve. In every meeting, team members were encouraged to participate, leaving them feeling empowered to complete the task at hand. As the pool of IT workers grows, Adam stands out from what is becoming a rarity; someone who possesses and appreciates a high level of technical and interpersonal skills. Any company or client would be more than lucky to work alongside this brilliant engineer.

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Credentials

  • Business Analysis & Process Management
    Coursera
    Dec, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Capital Markets
    Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
    May, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Data Science Fundamentals
    Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
    May, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Quantitative Trading Strategies
    TTC Institute
    Apr, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Credit, Swaps & Interest Rates
    TTC Institute
    Mar, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Energy & Metals Trading
    TTC Institute
    Mar, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Trading Futures & Options
    TTC Institute
    Mar, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Machine Learning: Introduction to TensorFlow
    Google
    Feb, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Market Analysis
    TTC Institute
    Feb, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Capital & Risk Management
    TTC Institute
    Jan, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Trading Equities & Indices
    TTC Institute
    Jan, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Asset Interrelationships & Business Cycles
    TTC Institute
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • The Business of Trading
    TTC Institute
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts
    Bloomberg LP
    Mar, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Professional Skills for Globalised World
    King's College London
    Dec, 2019
    - Oct, 2024
  • The Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award
    The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
    Sep, 2018
    - Oct, 2024
  • The Duke of Edinburgh's Silver Award
    The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
    Jan, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • The Duke of Edinburgh's Bronze Award
    The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
    Oct, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • European Computer Driving License (ECDL)
    BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
    May, 2015
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Financial Software Consultant
      • Dec 2022 - Present

      Working closely with financial clients such as tier 1 investment banks, hedge funds, brokers and other market participants to build bespoke trading system solutions to help them to achieve their business goals by making sound technical decisions, collaborating with stakeholders and being up to date with the latest technology and practices in the financial industry.

    • Junior Financial Software Consultant
      • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

      A structured training programme focused on technology and finance that was tailored to maximise potential. Mentored and tutored by senior members of the company while working on in-house consulting projects.

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Quantitative Trader
      • Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

      Research, development and backtesting of algorithmic alphas utilising Python, LEAN with stock/option market data and technical indicators, with consideration of slippage impact from affected liquidity, fees and fill times. Research, development and backtesting of algorithmic alphas utilising Python, LEAN with stock/option market data and technical indicators, with consideration of slippage impact from affected liquidity, fees and fill times.

    • United Kingdom
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Student Mentor
      • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

      Mentored a small group of 1st/2nd-year Computer Science students throughout the academic year by tutoring on advanced knowledge of course content and academic studying techniques. Mentored a small group of 1st/2nd-year Computer Science students throughout the academic year by tutoring on advanced knowledge of course content and academic studying techniques.

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • Investment Officer
      • Nov 2020 - Jan 2022

      A private pooled fund with 3 other partners using exclusively private capital. Growing our equity via: Long/Short positions via stock and options. Technical and Pattern day trading of US Equities. Detailed investment due diligence and avant-garde trading strategies. Investment Example: Positioning long on Oil ETFs very early in the energy crisis. www.arxig.com A private pooled fund with 3 other partners using exclusively private capital. Growing our equity via: Long/Short positions via stock and options. Technical and Pattern day trading of US Equities. Detailed investment due diligence and avant-garde trading strategies. Investment Example: Positioning long on Oil ETFs very early in the energy crisis. www.arxig.com

  • FiveM Cfx.re
    • London, England, United Kingdom
    • Lead Software Developer
      • Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

      A Lua/JavaScript based game server during COVID lockdown that averaged over 70 active players concurrently (filling our server slots), directed the overall project and managed a total of 10 voluntary staff/developers. Lua, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, Windows & Linux, DevOps, SaaS service Project Leader Responsibilities: > Directed a voluntary development, DevOps and support team of 10 with regular meetings and training. > Leading development of server content and implementation of player suggested features. > Reviewing and resolving client support tickets. > Network Engineering such as DDoS Mitigation and safeguarding dedicated servers from exploitation. > Funding and accountancy of the project. > Designed advanced modelling system using tools such as Grafana and Kibana for server monitoring and statistic modelling of over 10,000 individual players. Key Experiences: > When faced with a DDoS ransom attack, in which a cybercriminal actively flooded our dedicated server with network traffic causing server downtime and requested a ransom amount, I led my DevOps and staff team to successful mitigation of the attack via a large team effort to develop a script to detect a large amount of network traffic and close the open ports temporarily to counter it. We then proceeded to share our defence system with other server networks so they would not have to face the same issue. Meanwhile having to develop the mitigation script, I directed my staff support team to keep our player base engaged and reassured that our server would be functioning normally as soon as possible. > Directing a voluntary team of support staff, network engineers and developers gave me invaluable management experience. This management experience included encouraging and empowering staff members to excel in their specific departments, organising and directing weekly staff meetings with presentations on how to improve skills individually and as a staff team.

    • United Kingdom
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Logistics Assistant
      • Jun 2017 - Sep 2017

      Assistant in flagship store logistics team to ensure sufficient stock of products by establishing clear communications and data record control between available for sale store products and in-store warehouse. Assistant in flagship store logistics team to ensure sufficient stock of products by establishing clear communications and data record control between available for sale store products and in-store warehouse.

Education

  • King's College London
    Financial Trading Programme
    2021 - 2022
  • King's College London
    Bachelor's degree, BSc Computer Science
    2019 - 2022
  • Wharton Online
    Asset and Portfolio Management
    2021 - 2021
  • Carmel Sixth Form College
    Computer Science, Mathematics, Photography
    2017 - 2019

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