Hardworking IT operations professional with years of experience supporting financial (and now sports betting) exchange infrastructure. Technology enthusiast, lifelong learner and aspiring developer. Check Sporttrade out. This project is a simple static website, which is deployed using Terraform to provision the droplets and surrounding infrastructure, then Ansible to set up the nginx configuration, DNS and HTTPS. Please email me at the above address to connect.
Ensure the health of all Sporttrade systems through ongoing monitoring and log collection, along with relevant monitoring. Using Ansible, Terraform, and various scripting languages to automate all exchange operations related processes.
Responsible for ensuring all outcomes are listed appropriately on the exchange each day. Starting up, monitoring and shutting down (and creating automation to do this) the trading system each day. Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external market making firms to list new products. Working closely with exchange developers and Site Reliability Engineering regarding configuration changes, version and infrastructure updates. Managing and coaching a team of 7 operations specialists.
Setting up the Sporttrade trading system in preparation for launch. Created logical configurations for Kotlin (JVM-based) trading systems to ensure redudancy. Creating scalable processes for automation of daily processes using tools like Ansible, Bash, cron, etc. Responsible for monitoring both the exchange and brokerage sides of Sporttrade using tools like Datadog, Prometheus (and Grafana) and Pingdom. Created processes for Incident Management and on-call policies using OpsGenie.
Primarily supported Nasdaq's Fixed Income ATS (formerly eSpeed). Nasdaq provided a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) for electronic trading of OTR US Treasury instruments. Assisted with the integration of a separate ATS for RFQ trading of US Treasuries for a partner to hedge corporate bond trades. Generally responsible for monitoring application level issues and troubleshooting issues with network connectivity for participating Broker Dealers. Also assisted with inquiries regarding FIX protocol or other Nasdaq proprietary binary order entry or market data protocols.
Lead team of three Market Operations Analysts supporting Nasdad Fixed Income trading venue for US Treasuries. Served as SME for question related to FIX protocol (and other Nasdaq propietary protocols). Worked with Nasdaq sales teams and prospective new trading members to ensure any of their questions regarding colocation, connectivity, application protocols were answered throughly during the onboarding process. Coordinated overnight support coverage with an overseas team based in Hong Kong and Stockholm to ensure there was sufficient monitoring during APAC and London trading hours.
Provided first line support for Nasdaq's Broker Dealer participants. Fielded a variety of inquiries including but not limited to connectivity, clearing instructions, reference data, order entry and market data protocols. Worked with traders, middle office and back office personnel, as well as developers, network engineers and DevOps. Received recognition from the Nasdaq CEO related to efforts migrating backend from a legacy protocol to a new Nasdaq protocol in 2018.
GPA: 3.3
GPA: 3.95
6 month professional certification program through the University of Chicago. Course mainly covered the CI/CD pipeline and the portfolio project included setting up a CI/CD pipeline using Git, Github, Github Actions, Makefiles, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Artifactory.
Completed over 80 hours of coursework regarding DevOps processes in organizations. Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, deployed to K8s clusters/AWS/EKS, wrote scripts to automate tasks, configure monitoring and automate infrastructure provisioning.
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In my free time I love to play golf, albeit not well. Generally, I follow most sports, with favorites being golf, basketball, tennis, baseball and football. I also love reading and will include some of my favorite books on this site in the future.
In addition to reading, I watch a ton (too much) television, with favorite shows like The Office (classic), Arrested Development, Ozark, Succession, etc. Moved to Philadelphia about 2 years with my wife and Dachshund and enjoy visiting new places in the neighborhood and city.
I am big on professional development for both myself and my team and have a laundry list of things that I would like to accomplish in my free time to further my skillset. This project is actually one of them. Some others include: