About
Problem solver with an ability to learn and implement new practices quickly. Capable of working as part of a larger team, but also accepting of responsibility to complete projects in more independent settings. Primarily interested in object-oriented programming; JVM languages; writing robust, efficient, and performant code; and algorithm design.
Based in NW London and enjoy playing golf, drums, and working on pet programming projects in my spare time. Native speaker of English, Spanish, and Hebrew.
Experience
Policy Expert
2023 - Present
Senior fullstack role involving greenfield development of front-end solutions, and integration of existing backend systems with those of external vendors.
- Creating a CRM system to handle new products being rolled out to market.
- Integrating our policy lifecycle management system with new third-party vendors.
- Writing tooling to improve developer workflows.
10x Banking
2021 - 2022
Maintaining and developing a set of microservices responsible for storing and publishing customer data through restful HTTP endpoints or Kafka topics.
- Maintaining legacy APIs used by clients.
- Designing and implementing new APIs.
- Out of hours support.
- Improving code quality by addressing technical debt.
CMC Markets
2020 - 2021
Working within the Java Core Services team to maintain and upgrade microservices responsible for payments, compliance and internationalisation of the main Trading Application.
- Integrating with an external provider of PRIIPs financial analysis data for compliance purposes.
- Overhauling trading platform's onboarding process and creating an application form management tool.
- Integrating with an external provider of Address and Identity Verification services.
- Maintaining and improving the payments system used by clients to deposit and withdraw trading account funds.
- Various changes to administration tools used by non-technical employees to manage and configure services relevant to their work.
Caplin Systems
2017 - 2020
I joined Caplin Systems to participate in their graduate developer program, during which I spent time rotating several teams in the company undertaking tasks such as
- Integrating functionality from external providers of trading data/services into the Caplin stack.
- Improving and maintaining the main mock trading platform used by the front-end teams.
- Maintaining and creating new JavaScript components for BladeRunnerJS, a proprietary library for creating FX trading platforms.
- Contributing to the DevOps effort by creating new Chef recipes, Packer templates, Docker containers, and slack bots.
Education
University of Nottingham
MSc Computer Science (Distinction)
For my thesis I explored the role of a chatbot as an assistant to first year students in their daily lives. I built a simple web-based service which could scrape information from several University web-pages to provide information relating to bus schedules, contact information and office hours for lecturers, library computer availability, and campus shop opening times.
- Modules Taken:
- Mobile Device Programming (Android).
- Linear and Discrete Optimisation.
- Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Systems.
- Advanced Computer Networks.
- Game Design Theory.
University of Leicester
BSc Computing (2:1)
In my dissertation I was tasked with creating an algorithm which could solve levels of a ‘Candy Crush’-like game while maximising the player score. After creating my own clone of the game in Java, I used dynamic programming to reduce the NP-Hard problem of solving a Candy Crush board to a series of smaller subproblems which were solved in tractable time.
- Modules Taken:
- Internet Computing and Web Technologies.
- Multimedia and Computer Graphics.
- Operating Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems.
- Communication and Concurrency.
- Analysis and Design of Algorithms.
- Cryptography and Information Security.