Global Head of Trading, Risk, Positions, & Client-Integration Systems
New York, NY
Highly-experienced IT leader with deep technical knowledge of system design, architecture, and application development. Domain expertise in cash equities, futures, derivatives, structured products, fixed income, FX, and crypto. Extensive experience in high-frequency/low-latency trading platforms and global team leadership. MIT graduate.
FalconX
Jan 2022 — Present
Senior technology leader at crypto startup responsible for strategic vision and build out of next-generation crypto trading, risk, position, and client-integration platforms. Designed and built low-latency crypto trading platform using C++20/23, shared memory, Aeron, NUMA/thread affinity. Platform handles 75 million trades per day. Revamped risk management infrastructure, delivered position management system, led design of client-integration hub using FIX protocol. Managed globally-distributed technology teams.
XMonetae
Jan 2022 — Dec 2022
Senior technology leader responsible for architecture and development of low-latency crypto trading platform. Designed and built platform using C++ 17/20, low-latency techniques, Linux kernel, and compiler optimizations. Built operational tools for trade reconciliation, reporting, and position management. Managed globally-distributed technology teams.
Bloomberg L.P.
Jan 2014 — Dec 2022
Senior technology lead responsible for designing and implementing modern real-time multi-asset market intelligence platform. Built platform for client analytics using C++ 17 and distributed microservices. Built data ingestion framework, data management services, screening tools, analytic engines, and user interfaces. Handled over 1 billion hits per day.
Thomson Reuters
Jan 2012 — Dec 2013
Global technology leader responsible for architecture and innovation of award-winning Best Online FX Electronic Trading Platform with daily volume of ~$175b. Led re-architecture of SAP BI reporting platform, modernization of IT infrastructure, introduced FX derivatives as new asset class, enabled algorithmic trading capabilities, led Swap Execution Facility initiative.
HAP Capital
Jan 2009 — Dec 2011
Technology manager responsible for designing and implementing quantitative tools, market data feeds, and ultrahigh-frequency/low-latency platform for proprietary trading of equities, ETFs, options, futures, and FX. Built highly configurable low-latency platform using C++, InfiniBand, Linux kernel. Designed direct exchange feeds from OPRA, INET, ARCA, BATS, CME. Built high-performance C#/.NET front-end applications.
Morgan Stanley
Jan 2007 — Dec 2008
Technology lead responsible for re-engineering trade capture and lifecycle management system for global OTC equity and fixed income derivatives businesses. Designed new system using core Java allowing new product types and lifecycle events to be pluggable. System included audit capabilities and deal history replay.
Bear Stearns
Jan 2005 — Dec 2007
Technical lead responsible for rebuilding Equity Derivatives trading stack using Calypso system. Built Java-based equity derivatives trading system including order/deal management, hedging, lifecycle handling, market data, pricing, risk, and P&L. Implemented post-trade reporting and back-office integration.
JP Morgan Chase
Jan 2004 — Dec 2005
Technology manager responsible for development and integration of pricing models for FX options and commodities into Murex risk system. Architected Java-based framework for integrating proprietary pricing models, designed new user interfaces, validated and performance tuned models.
Goldman Sachs
Jan 1995 — Dec 2004
Technology leader responsible for architecting and developing trading and risk platforms, options market making systems, and analysis tools. Built 2nd generation market-making system for warrants in UK and Asia. Developed scalable system for listed options market-making using C/C++. Built web-based real-time pricing system for structured products and options trading/risk management system.