ebalynn

Confident and multi-certified senior developer, with over 12 years’ of experience and a strong focus on combining systems development, with sound financial knowledge, to build enduring business value. Dependable and diligent shown through significant responsibilities awarded in the form of major project development roles.

Has vast experience in developing server side and UI systems. Including: OMS, Risk, P&L, E-Trading (algo trading) and Electronic Market Making applications. Has worked on a number of market connectivity projects: including FIX protocol and other third party tools. Has first-hand experience using such systems, while working as quantitative analyst, portfolio manager assistant and a trader.

Has substantial knowledge of running risk for convertible bond funds. Passed SII exams in: Financial Regulations, Securities and Investment Management; as a prerequisite of the FSA registration process – CF30 (control functions).

Committed to deadlines and is experienced in middle and long term project planning. Constantly interested in new technologies and facing new challenges. A natural problem solver, whose extensive experience has aided the development of a socially aware and able team; motivator who can make the difference needed to succeed.

IT Expertise

* C#, .NET, In-Depth CLR knowledge, Type Internals, GC, Memory Model * VBA, F# (beginner), Multithreaded, Low Latency * Concurrency & Parallelism, TPL, Async/Await, Synchronisation, CPU Cache, Locking Optimisation * Performance, Low Latency, JIT, NGen, Optimisation, Serialisation, Protobuf * FIX Protocol, QuickFix, Bloomberg API * Networking (TCP, UDP), Sockets, Nagle’s Algorithm, IPv4 * T-SQL, ADO.NET, EF, Fluent nHibernate * WCF, WPF, MVVM, PRISM, Unity, WinForms * TDD, Moq, Rhino Mocks, GoF, SOA, AOP, Scrum, CI, IoC * TSVN, TFS, JIRA, TeamCity, Git, PivitalTracker

Financial Experience

* Algorithmic Trading, E-Market Making, ETFs, Index Arbitrage, Delta One, Equity finance, SBL businesses * Portfolio management and running of Convertible Bond funds, Gamma Trading, FX trading * Fixed income, derivatives, swaps, convertible, credit, FX and other financial instruments * Understanding of risk management, Black-Scholes, risk sensitivities, hedging strategies * Securities operations, Trade lifecy