Polachary

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Enterprise Application Developer with over 10+ years of experience building enterprise solutions for financial services firms, including trading systems, loan origination and servicing platforms, using Microsoft tools & technologies. Currently interested in Automated Trading Systems, Asset Management Systems, Robo-Advisors and Curation/Recommendation Engines in Finance or FinTech industries. Specialist in maintaining/enhancing/refactoring legacy systems in VC++/VB/C#/SQL/ETL. Interested in greenfield development in C#/SQL/ETL, especially functional programming in F#. And, I make ETLs to run faster! SKILLS

Domains: Financial Services, Social Media, Analytics/Decision Support, Trading Systems & Fixed-Income Languages: F#, C#, VB & SQL

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite

Data: ETL, Data Cleaning, Data Wrangling, Feature Engineering, SQL, LINQ and Excel Tools: Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio on Mac, TFS, Git, SSMS, LinqPad & Excel Cloud: Azure SQL, VSTS, Bot Framework, Serverless & Microservices Technologies: Functional Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, ASP.NET/MVC, MSMQ, XML/SOAP Web Services, JSON/REST Web API, XML/DTD/XSD/XSLT, LINQ, Rx, Dapper, WCF, Async, Multithreading, TPL UI: WinForms, WPF/XAML/MVVM, Xamarin Forms, ASP.NET/MVC, WebForms and JavaScript EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer – Guggenheim Partners, Santa Monica, CA May 2018 – Present

● For Funding Desk, developed 5 new reports with C#, SQL & Excel: Ladder Report, Fixed-vs-Float Report, Interest Rate Sensitivity Report, Counter Party Exposure Report and FHLB Des Moines - Rate Advances

● In Fixed-Income Front Office, maintained & enhanced, TradePost, a legacy trade notification distribution system written in VB & Excel

● Designed & developed TradePost Replay Service, a system to enable integration as well as regression testing

● Ported the legacy TradePost to C# with appropriate data model via re-factoring, re-design by adding numerous enhanced capabilities including: dynamic/configurable Bloomberg data pull, dynamic config-driven display, trade revision/change tracking/highlighting, HTML/CSS rendering and better performance and logging, while getting rid of ~30 Excel templates and numerous stored procedures with thousands of lines of inefficient SQL.

● Incorporated Data-Oriented Design, Transaction Script Pattern, Control Tables and Functional Programming approaches where possible, along with Scheduling, Queuing and State Machine, significantly reducing maintenance costs.

● This post-trade application service helps improve efficiencies across desks: by eliminating the error-prone manual emailing of trades/amends; improves accuracy and timeliness of the trade notifications with tested data/calculations and standardized display format; keeps analysts, traders, portfolio managers on the same page without effort so they can focus on what they do best. Tools & Technologies: C#, SQL Server, Dapper, Excel & HTML/CSS; Aladdin & Bloomberg Data. Freelance Developer – Region Technologies, Phoenix, AZ May 2016 – April 2018

● Designed, developed and deployed an automated trading system to trade stocks, options, and futures using market data from multiple data providers and multiple brokerage APIs. The system has multiple modules that include data extract, transform and load, back-testing, risk monitor, trade management, order management, logging and alert via text or voice.

● Integrated Quandl Data API, Twilio API, Interactive Brokers, TradeStation and Tradier brokerage APIs Technologies: F#, SQLite, Azure SQL, Azure Serverless, JSON/REST API, C#, WinForms & WPF. Senior Data/Decision Support Engineer, LightStream/SunTrust Banks - San Diego, CA January 2013 – April 2016 SunTrust Bank acquired FirstAgain and rebranded the company as LightStream, a loan originations and servicing platform. During my tenure their loan portfolio grew from $200m to $2b.

● Accelerated modifications, enhancements, and rebranding for multiple loan origination and servicing platforms hibernated during the recession.

● Designed and implemented a Credit Bureau Reporting module to report monthly loan status to the three bureaus.

● Rewrote the entire payment and funding exception handling processes, reducing lines of code by 67% and introducing a simple templatized configuration.

● Improved the quality of Corporate Credit Policy by continuously cross-validating the model with live data and resolving identified gaps and bugs.

● Served as an internal subject matter expert to consult on ad hoc internal projects to share domain knowledge.

● Mentored new hires on system design, processes, workflows, and Fedwire/ACH funding/payment processing systems.

● Integrated with 3rd party check payment processing systems like OCR/Lockbox for payment processing.

● Integrated with FedWire, ACH as well as Same-Day ACH for funding and payment processing.

● Built, operated and enhanced the loan funding, payment processing systems.

● Built, operated and enhanced FedWire failure and ACH payment failure handling systems.

● Researched and reported on various business intelligence and marketing opportunities via data cleaning, wrangling, and feature engineering.

Technologies: C#, SQL Server, SQL, LINQ, ASP.NET, JavaScript, WCF, XML Web Services, WinForms/WPF & Workflow. Architect/Co-Founder, Saambaa LLC - San Diego, CA 2011 - 2012 Saambaa developed a social media application for iOS.

● Designed and developed an iOS social mobile application that was featured on the App Store.

● Accelerated the launch of the MVP using Lean Startup methodologies.

● Increased code reuse by 66% to reduce development time and cost by ~50%.

● Built event scraping, crawling, and aggregation services to accumulate events across the web in multiple data formats.

● Designed and developed backend APIs to be used via mobile applications and for the public web site.

● Modified the app to accommodate new business requirements and increased partners. Technologies: C#, SQL Server, Xamarin, JSON/REST APIs, SQL, LINQ, TPL, Azure, Twilio. Senior Software Engineer, FirstAgain - San Diego, CA 2005 - 2012 FirstAgain is a loan originations and servicing platform.

● Designed and developed the IDProfile module that featured over 25 security validations and cross-checks (IP address mapping and login history, SSN, employment verification, etc.) for the loan originations platform, resulting in significant savings and help detect and/or prevent identity fraud.

● Built side-by-side comparison of Experian and Equifax credit bureau reports in the WinForms application to eliminate manual matching by underwriters increase speed of loan underwriting.

● Designed and developed various loan originations and servicing business processes resulting in significant reduction in manual workarounds.

Tools & Technologies: C#, SQL Server, SQL, XML, XSD, XSLT, XML/SOAP Web Services, Windows Workflow, InRule Software Engineer, PeopleFirst/Capital One Auto Finance - San Diego, CA 2001 - 2005 PeopleFirst is an online loan origination platform that pioneered the “BlankCheck” concept of next-day loans with a capped loan amount.

● Implemented vehicle VIN validation, credit card validation, and pre-authorization modules.

● Maintained and enhanced E-Forms module that prints BlankChecks for funding and generates loan agreements.

● Maintained, enhanced and operated loan servicing payment processing system. Technologies: VC++, MFC, Win32 API, COM/DCOM, SQL Server, SQL. Software Engineer, Healtheon WebMD, Santa Clara, CA 2000-2001 Implemented employee health care plan selections and their merging as well as migrations from staging to production.

Technologies: C++, CORBA, Unix.

Software Engineer, Honeywell India Software Operations (HISO), Bangalore, India 1998-1999 Implemented communications between various controls to the flight simulator system. Technologies: VC++, Win32 API, IPC/RPC/Named Pipes, Windows Sockets. Graduate Engineer Trainee, Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad, India 1997-1998 Implemented communication between peripheral devices to the central control panel. Technologies: VC++, Win32 API, IPC/RPC/Named Pipes, Windows Sockets. EDUCATION

Bachelors in Technology (with Distinction) in Computer Science & Engineering (CS&E) Sri Venkateswara University - AP, India

CERTIFICATIONS

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional - 2004

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