Consultant / Fixed Income Core Analytics DevOps Engineer / Release Manager Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

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Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant / Fixed Income Core Analytics DevOps Engineer / Release Manager

Responsibilities:

Played a leading role in integrating a sophisticated Jenkins based fully automated continuous build/testing system, which consists of technologies such as SWIG, premake, gmake, Visual Studio, distcc, IncrediBuild, Ivy, and Gradle, etc. every change in a very large set of C++/Scala source code base in both Perforce and Git repos would trigger a waterfall of concurrent multi - platform builds, which is then fed into unit testing and continuous regression testing framework. Every single number difference can be then traced back to a particular code change. This platform makes production release signoff a breeze.
Used Splunk to monitor build and QA farm stabilities.
Managed multiple global releases every week for both pricing libraries and risk teams. Prioritized and coordinated with technology and business stakeholders.
Identified opportunities to shorten release cycles and lower production change related risks by adopting continuous deployment model.
Saved Core Analytics team annualized $1.2 million on storage cost after strategic library distribution optimization.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant / Regulatory Technology Compliance

Responsibilities:

Analyzed and streamlined bank’s release and change management protocols to comply with various regulations from Baffin, Fed, and MAS. Worked with bank wide application teams and extremely heterogeneous technologies, identified the most cost and effort effective solutions.
Architected integration of source code review, binary security scanning, and coverage reporting into TeamCity builds and change management system. Worked with SVN, Git, Perforce, CVS source code management systems, and various build tools including Maven, Ant, and make.
Provided solutions to sanitize client sensitive data in development and testing Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server database environments to mitigate the risk of potential security breach.

Confidential, New York, NY

Equity Production Support, Release Management

Responsibilities:

Supported mission critical Equities reference data application. Set up Tibco Confidential real time monitors to ensure absolute stability. Developed custom hooks to automatically handle most of the predictable failure scenarios.
Set up Autosys jobs to automatically process and normalized reference data from Bloomberg, Reuters, and other providers to feed into Equities central repository 24/7.
Supported FIX engine, client/exchange connectivity, and order management system. Monitored business ready checks, enhanced DR strategies, carried out release planning, execution, and post release verifications.
Developed release toolset for Equities Risk Management System. Established a set of highly reliable and automated procedures for QA, UAT, and production environments across regions.
Designed, implemented, and maintained Build, Package, and Deployment Framework, which became the strategic release solution across Equities IT department. The framework provides support team a unified and streamlined process to manage release process without having to know too much application specific details. The framework was heavily adopted during Confidential global Equity build out.
Managed a project to set up JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, and Stash for entire Equities IT department, including server and database set up, application installation and upgrade, as well as daily support.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

Single-handedly managed a multi-release configuration control environment for a family of mission critical financial applications.
Coordinated development and release planning with all business units.
Single-handedly maintained and administrated a sophisticated software workspace management system.