SHEET A.02DRAWING NO. 2026/05

WORK EXPERIENCE

[E.01]

HEDGE FUND

AI & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

CURRENTJUNE 2026 — PRESENT
  • Building cutting-edge AI systems and infrastructure for a leading hedge fund.
[E.02]

DAVIDSON KEMPNER

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

JUNE 2025 — JUNE 2026
  • Software engineering at one of the longest-running hedge fund managers in the industry.
[E.03]

BLACKSTONE

IC & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

JULY 2022 — MARCH 2024
  • Hands-on software engineer and manager leading a global team of senior ICs on a mission to cut ties with BXCore, Blackstone's legacy framework.
  • Built an abstraction layer bridging varied trade entry applications and multiple accounting ledger systems — a cloud-native Python solution using Poetry on AWS.
  • Introduced a novel method to dynamically import any data types into the Investran ledger system, which was initially limited to transactional schemas.
  • Overhauled legacy authentication and authorization for the Niagara economic accounting system, serving as a blueprint for other teams.
  • Transformed team culture through knowledge-sharing presentations like 'Beacon and Me' and 'Excel Potty Training with Data Dumps.'
[E.04]

COHEN & STEERS

HEAD OF ALT DATA & EXCEL DEVELOPMENT

JUNE 2019 — JULY 2022
  • Led front-office software development and quantitative team supporting 100+ investment professionals across three major initiatives.
  • Built a comprehensive alternative data sciences platform for insights into international real estate, global infrastructure, and commodities.
  • Rearchitected Excel-based technology with a prefetched Redis cache, boosting performance by 99% and enabling SOA-based automation.
  • Integrated Excel AddIn with OMS team's API, creating OMS-agnostic workflows through migration from EZE Castle to Charles River.
  • Transitioned quants' on-prem dev environments to Azure DevOps with build and release pipelines.
[E.05]

DATAWARHORSE

RISK MANAGEMENT & DATA SCIENCES FOR HEDGE FUNDS

NOVEMBER 2017 — JUNE 2019
  • Developed cloud-based financial software including market data, security master, portfolio construction, and risk management.
  • Implemented a Monte Carlo best-first search algorithm using structured randomness to optimize portfolio hedges.
  • Built cloud-based ASP.NET MVC website, iOS and Android apps, and Alexa skills for voice-based portfolio risk queries.
  • Extended ETL framework for unstructured alternative data including social media, eCommerce, and crowd-sourced sites.
[E.06]

TREMBLANT CAPITAL

HEAD OF RISK AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

JUNE 2009 — NOVEMBER 2017
  • Created risk management and data warehouse system praised by external consultants as 'among the top of all hedge funds we have reviewed in 25 years.'
  • Built risk library including performance analytics, alpha/beta attribution, stress tests, factor analysis, and liquidity calculations.
  • Designed three user interfaces: web for data entry, Silverlight for analysis, Excel add-in for power-users.
  • Created and sent rebalanced trade files to EZE Castle OMS; integrated with intraday API for real-time analysis updates.
[E.07]

BLUE MOUNTAIN CAPITAL

QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIST

MARCH 2008 — JANUARY 2009
  • Created full-stack software to optimize margin, calculate risk, and assign trades using WPF's M-V-ViewModel and WCF.
[E.08]

UBS PRIME BROKERAGE

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

MAY 2006 — MARCH 2008
  • Managed front-end client technology team, championed MVC technology, led interview process.
[E.09]

SUNGARD / BRASS

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

MARCH 2005 — MAY 2006
  • Developed DMA front-end in C# and trade execution back-end in C++.