Experience

~ evolving relentlessly since 1997 ~

Engagements

Jun 2022 - Present
Contract Consultant

Technical Architecture | Training | AI/ML | Cloud Solutions

Supporting Startups, Professional Services firms, and FinTechs with technical and strategic advisory, data and integrations engineering services.

Jun 2022 - Present
iQlink, UK

Consultant - Technical Architect

Providing technical solutions architecture and engineering services for enterprise data migrations, systems integrations, and cloud solutions on Salesforce, Workato, and AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Jul 2020 - May 2022
Tradeslide Trading Tech Ltd (Darwinex)

Senior Solutions Architect | Quant R&D Tech Lead

Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Tradeslide Trading Tech Ltd (Darwinex)

Chief Data Scientist | Quantitative Researcher

Jan 2017 - May 2018
Tradeslide Trading Tech Ltd (Darwinex)

Data Science Lead, Darwinex Labs

Apr 2012 - Jan 2017
Contract Consultant

Technical Architect | Technical Trainer

Oct 2008 - Aug 2011
Albemarle Independent College

Lecturer of Mathematics & Computing

Jun 2004 - Jan 2007
Tekcellent Private Ltd

Software Engineer | Quant Developer

Aug 1997 - Aug 2003
Contract Freelancer

C, C++, PHP, and Java Developer

Education

2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Helping clients design technical strategies and build solutions across multiple platforms and providers to accomplish specific business goals, balancing best practices and trade-offs based on business context.

2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Helping clients implement CI/CD systems and methodologies, automate resilient applications and infrastructure deployments, enforce security, automated monitoring, and event-driven environments on the AWS Cloud.

2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Helping clients manage application life-cycles, build CI/CD pipelines and applications with AWS APIs, SDKs and Serverless technologies, in accordance with AWS best practices.

2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Helping clients deploy, manage and operate IT systems, migrate on-premises workloads to AWS, and monitor, scale, and secure them in accordance with AWS best practices.

2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Helping clients design and build secure, robust, well-architected distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and fault-tolerant.

2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Supporting clients with designing and building solution architectures using best practices as per the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

2019
Udacity

Artificial Intelligence for Trading (Nanodegree)

2018
Udacity

Machine Learning for Trading (Course)

2007-2011
Queen Mary, University of London

Computer Science with Industrial Experience

2008
ExpertRating Inc.

MySQL Certification

2007
Middlesex University, London

Certificate of Higher Education in Computing

2006
ExpertRating Inc.

Programming in C Certification

Certifications

Courses

Machine Learning for Trading

In collaboration with GeorgiaTech
2019

Industry Knowledge

Technical & Solution Architecture

Cloud Application & SaaS Development

Data, Software & Integrations Engineering

Technical Leadership, Training & Development

Data Strategy, Integration & Management

IT Operations & Project Management

Data Warehousing & Lake Formation

Microservices Architecture

Digital Transformation

Enterprise Architecture

Agile Methodologies

Requirements Analysis

Quantitative Finance & Investing

Quantitative Research & Development

Applied Data Science, Machine Learning & AI

Statistical Data Analysis & Programming

Data Visualization

Predictive Modeling

Tools & Technologies

Serverless Application R&D on AWS

Application Containerization (Docker)

Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

REST API Development

SQL | MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora

MongoDB | DocumentDB

NoSQL | DynamoDB

Python, R, and Julia

C, C++, and Java

Microsoft Azure

Interpersonal Skills

Building Highly Performant, Motivated Teams

Effective & Engaging Public Speaking (EN & ES)

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving & Analytical Aptitude

People, Talent & Team Management

Active Listening & Mediation Skills

Versatile Team Leadership Skills

Growth & Best Practices Mindset