Austin Feller adv197@r.postjobfree.com 267-***-****

University of Chicago. 2013. Mathematics, Honors, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar Python language expert with strong SQL and Linux skills. Excels at debugging. Fan of testing, PEP8, and otherwise following industry norms. Adaptive, fast learner. Reads the standards. Reads the docs. 4Degrees Software Engineering Consultant. November 2021 - November 2022 (Python, SQL, javascript)

- Refactored and rewrote code to significantly improve performance and decrease bugs.

- Debugged and deduplicated code, and implemented new features as full stack developer.

- Advocated for better practices, frameworks, and libraries.

- Performed DBA and sys admin tasks as needed, including optimization and database migration.

- Trained young developers.

Two Sigma Investments Python Engineer on data team. December 2020 - November 2021

- Downloaded data using techniques including Selenium web scrapes and connecting to various APIs.

- Normalized data using tools including Pandas, Pyarrow, BeautifulSoup, ElementTree, and PDFMiner.

- Joined support rotation and resolved issues with existing datasets.

- Onboarded more than 90 datasets stemming from approximately 20 distinct requests in 15 weeks. HBK Capital Management Python and SQL developer on data team. June 2018 - April 2020

- Onboarded new datasets and fixed bugs in the normalization process of existing datasets.

- Improved monitoring and automation related to data integrity, data ops, and DBA operations.

- Fixed many long-standing support issues, improved process and documentation on support rotation.

- Helped train and manage a large team of offshore support, greatly improving their code and practices.

- Modernized code and translated legacy applications to supported frameworks. Virtu Financial (via KCG) 2015-2018: Python, Reflex, Java, SQL, and general Linux developer. Sept. 2017 - Jan. 2018 Virtu Commodities Desk, general technology support, Austin, TX:

- Worked closely with quants and traders to adapt technology and tooling to their needs.

- Rewrote strategies, facilitating splitting it into fast-path and slow-path components, and exposing more control around selecting alternative paths through which to compute the spread.

- Expanded data visualization tooling.

- Assisted with porting Virtu’s trading repository from SVN to Git. 2015-2017 KCG ex-Getco US Equities and DMM unit

- Integrated code from different teams, reducing ops burden and improving performance by leveraging the best solution for hedging, position transfer, model allocation, and other common functionality.

- Wrote a service that integrated a news feed and updated stat arb models to consume that data.

- Improved code for netting out positions across strategies, reducing variance and liquidation costs.

- Fixed numerous bugs in trader code and otherwise improved trading strategies.

- Used Luigi to greatly improve processes around the generation of static data artifacts.

- Refactored latency-sensitive strategies to be 40% faster gateway to gateway in the median case.

- Rewrote model allocation algorithm, reducing multicast messaging subscriptions by more than 30%.

- Excelled at time-sensitive debugging.

- Performed various stop gap functions, quickly learning to fill voids in local expertise after departures.

- Revived and completed several projects that had been abandoned by other developers: SQLAlchemy bindings for Vertica, Docker containers, Python bindings for backtesting framework

- Refactored out of band hedging service and stat arb factor model to improve scalability.

- Rewrote reporting framework to better highlight key metrics and anomalous behaviors. Adaptasoft 2013-2014, .NET, PHP, Java, SQL, and web developer. Payroll processing applications. Groovebug LLC 2013, Objective-C (iOS), Python (GAE), and web developer. Music streaming apps.

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