Software Engineer
Resume:
Pinaki Vazarkar
Wilton, CT *****
**************@*****.***
Summary / Qualifications
Experienced technical professional with over 5+ years of varied hand-on development experience in diverse business verticals and 7+ years proven track record in a client facing technical role within the financial industry.
Strong technical and analytical problem solving skills with an innate aptitude for programming.
Proven track record in working with high net worth clients in an extremely demanding, high pressure environment.
Uniquely versed in dealing with traders, analysts, and developers at business and technical levels.
Fundamental proficiency in e-trade flow for various asset classes including equities, futures, and options.
Subject matter expertise with REDI ®, a proprietary equities and derivatives trade execution management system.
Personal Technical Projects (https://github.com/javajane)
Expr : to evaluate an expression given by user. This includes common trigonometric functions (SINE/COSINE/TAN/SEC/LOG) and operators such as . Eg: sin(60), 5^3*(9+1020)/20. This program was particularly interesting because it involved evaluating parenthesis and quite a bit of pattern matching
APIs used: Java.util.regex.Pattern, Java.util.regex.Matcher, Java.util.Scanner
RomanNumeral – converts Arabic to Roman and Roman to Arabic
APIs used: Java.util.Scanner, java.util.regex.pattern, java.util.regex.Matcher, java.util.Arrays, java.util.hashmap
WordList Takes a list of files and prints out count of total count against each word
APIs used: Java.io.bufferedReader, java.io.FileReader, java.io.IOException, java.io.PrintWriter, java.util.Arraylsit, java.util.Collections
IsAPrime: Takes an integer as input to determine whether it is a Prime number or not.
FTPServer/Client: A file transfer program where the server recognizes certain valid commands such as ls, get filename and sends back the results to the client
Technical Skillset
Languages: Perl, SQL, Java, SQL, UNIX shell scripting, C, VBA, CGI, Python
Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux, Windows
Applications/Editors: MS EXCEL, MS WORD, MS PowerPoint, VI, Aqua Data Studio
Personal Projects: https://github.com/javajane
Experience
SLV Consulting:
Wilton, CT September 2016 – present
Temporal Data Management Platform: As part of a broader initiative to manage financial data, I am working on the design and implementation of a Curve Management module which will help with the persistence and management of time series data. The module primarily in Java is expected to work with both SQL and NoSQL persistent stores. Perl/Python scripting will be used for establishing permanent data feeds.
Technology Stack: Java, Python, Perl, Linux, Cassandra, MySQL, and PostGreSQL.
Sabbatical July 2015 – September 2016
REDI Global Technologies
New York, NY June 2013 – June 2015
Custom Report for a HedgeFund Client: Developed a Python script to create daily custom reports, with trade data being pulled from multiple TIBCO busses.
JIRA migration: Worked with developer and Business Users to implement and customize JIRA to work effectively for the users. The goal behind the customization was the ease of use for L1 Business and L1/L2 technical teams. This meant minimizing number of clicks, auto populating fields, narrowing down and having clear choices for selections.
Daily Management tasks: One of the product I supported was a risk management tool within the trading platform. During the transition of the tool to the newer platform, we had to migrate the rules and run analysis on the type of rules each client had. I used Perl to create a report on client specific rules and the type of rules to assist in the migration task.
Market Data: Lead the requirements analysis phase of a major Market data initiative. This involved everything from reviewing vendor offerings, working with senior management, putting together pricing models, creating RFPs and ultimately selecting a vendor of choice, managing the market data project including talking to Business users and writing requirements using Agile methods (user stories)
Service Cloud/Sales Force Implementation: Evaluated various support products and implemented Service Cloud(Sales Force) for our L1 support team to manage email and phone traffic efficiently and in a timely manner. This meant answering emails from Sales Force(Service Cloud), having it integrated with Sales Force platform, which in turn showed up as tickets/issues for the client in Sales Force. Any representative could then have a complete picture of any open and recent issues to be able to seamlessly speak and help the client.
Technology Stack: UNIX, Perl, MySQL Sybase, SQL, Python, VBA, JIRA, Agile (Scrum master), Salesforce, Aquadata Studio
Goldman Sachs
New York, NY Sept. 2006 – June 2013
Platinum Client Issues Management and Escalations: Managing client issue escalations.
Change Management: Implementing change management protocol to ensure changes are moved into production with proper due diligence, testing, checkouts to minimize impacts
Custom Reports: Writing custom reports to pull trade/execution data
Other Responsibilities: Running ad hoc queries for analysis, providing L2 support to external clients, mentoring junior members, interviewing candidates for the team
Technology Stack: UNIX, Perl, MySQL, SQL, JIRA,
Bristol Myers Squibb
Hopewell, NJ May 2000 - June 2005
Principal Software Analyst supporting the company’s email messaging infrastructure
Technology Stack: Sun Messaging SDK, LDAP, Perl, and UNIX shell scripting
CDNow (eventually acquired by BMG) Software Engineer
Langhorne, PA May 1999 – May 2000
Software Engineer supporting and building out the startups retail website.
Technology Stack: CDNOW Proprietary SDK for commerce website development,
Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson Reuters)
Philadelphia, PA May 1997 – May 1999
Programmer Analyst responsible for enhancing the search portal for the firm’s scientific research data catalog.
Technology Stack: Perl, CGI, and UNIX shell scripting
Education
Post-Baccalaureate program in Finance (3.67 GPA) Sept. 2010 - present
Columbia University, NYC, NY
MS. Computer Science (3.4 GPA) May, 1997
St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
B.A in Mathematics with minor in Economics May, 1994
Series 66 and Series 7 certifications.
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