Education
- BA, Cornell University, cum laude in mathematics,
May 2001
- PhD, University of California at Davis,
mathematics, Dec 2007
- MS, Rutgers, mathematical finance, Jan 2014
Employment
- Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, Digital
Assets
Sep 2025 - current, Principal Engineer (Assoc. Dir. of Blockchain
Eng.)
- Principal engineer on the Collateral Appchain, focused on collateral
mobility solutions.
- Work with SMEs and Product to architect blockchain-based collateral
workflows.
- JP Morgan Chase, Kinexys Digital Assets
Feb 2024 - Sep 2025, Lead Software Developer (VP)
- Collaborate with SMEs to architect blockchain tokenization
projects.
- Provide mentorship and code reviews for junior team members.
- Curve DAO
April 2022 - Feb 2024, Software Engineer / Researcher
- Develop Python package for simulating risk-reward scenarios for
Curve pools.
- Advise protocols in managing risk-reward of exposures often in
10-100m USD.
- APY Finance
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022, Lead engineer, smart contracts and backend
services
- Created and deployed contracts controlling $80M TVL (Solidity and
Ethers/Hardhat).
- Architected unique system to securely manage and valuate a portfolio
of Convex positions.
- Created and maintained backend calculations and REST services.
- Capital One
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020, Senior engineer / tech lead
- As hands-on lead for Python-based data lake access, planned roadmap,
created work items, established best practices in coding and
testing.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with data scientists and ML group to
craft requirements for diverse environments from laptops to distributed
clusters.
- LoanStreet Inc.
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019, Senior software engineer in financial
technology
- Re-architected loan syndication tech stack using domain-driven
design.
- Managed team of 4, gathered requirements, set best practices for
code quality, Git, and CI.
- Wrote Docker files and Python libraries for event-sourced
microservices using RabbitMQ.
- MIO Partners (McKinsey & Co subsidiary)
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018, Quant developer for trading
- Created Python-based portfolio management tools used interactively
for analysis and as components in report-generation processes deployed
in Docker containers.
- Created and maintained daily trading opportunity charts reviewed by
CEO. Data was processed from a variety of sources including emails and
databases.
- JP Morgan Chase
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016, Quant developer for regulatory capital
- Automated Excel and Access-based manual processes as robust server
processes, with event-driven GUI, using proprietary Python-based
environment (Athena).
- Frequent communication and signoffs from business users were
required, with careful documentation showing accuracy of results.
- Nomura
Feb 2014 - Mar 2015, Front office developer for electronic
trading
- Created low-latency order book generator that used Tibco Rv to
aggregate market-data and pricing and communicate with smart order
router and GUI (Java/Linux).
- Created a FIX trade feed from ION trading platform into trade
management system.
Personal
- Naturalized U.S. Citizen; moved to the U.S. at age eight.