Technical Director
July 2023 - Present Connect The Market

Designed and build an integrated real estate and finance portal for the Dutch Caribbean. Automated property listing crawling from broker websites. Integrated the CONNECT onboarding platform for secure financial transaction onboarding, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and identity checks and compliant electronic contract signing.

Software Architect & Backend Engineer
July 2021 - Present ACSI Labs / FutureView

Designed and developed backend agent-based architecture that powers 3D virtual worlds used by mining giant Anglo American, and the US Marines to train recruits. This platform provides demonstrable rapid learning outcomes for participants through wargaming scenarios in compressed time.

Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
July 2016 - Present CONNECT N.V.

I have designed and implemented a robust .NET web application and backend services for CONNECT. This involved integrating with third-party APIs including Shufti Pro and Right Signature to ensure seamless functionality. The success of this solution has led to its global rollout by a renowned global tax and auditing firm, solidifying its impact on the financial industry worldwide.

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Algorithmic Trading
April 2020 - Present Personal Futures Trading Algorithms

Architected and built a microservice based platform in .NET with a Zebus messaging framework that enables multiple real-time data feeds connections simultaneously to execute algorithm-based trades on several broker API’s. The platform can make trading decisions in <200ms and has the capability of running multiple algorithms in parallel. Additional prototype algorithms were created in CTrader (C#) and Meta Trader 5 (MQL5). These are personal projects for professional skills growth and curiosity.

My latest algorithms are built and deployed using Quantower's API executing futures trades in a live environment (both ES & MES) - still early days but results are promising.

Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
September 2021 - October 2022 Freighthood

Built a workflow-based system that enables international shippers and importers to manage their quote, order, and export documentation using an intuitive drag and drop interface. This web application reduced input errors and increased efficiency be bringing multiple parties and counterparties in the chain together into one place and enabled data to flow through to the relevant documentation at each step in the shipping journey without data re-entry, resulting is reduction of entry errors.

Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer (Unity3D, .NET API)
May 2021 - July 2021 QinetiQ

Developed and provided training for a base framework 3D platform with voice and multiplayer enabling internal teams to quickly build multiplayer virtual world experiences without requiring extensive backend skills. This allowed their internal Unity developers to focus on building their environments with multi-user functionality built in.

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Software Architect & Backend Engineer
August 2020 - January 2021 The World Indigenous Forum

Designed and developed the backend architecture for a two-day live event held inside of a virtual 3D world. The backend architecture facilitated dynamically splitting event attendees across instances based on the visitor count ensuring a single space was not overloaded.

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Software Architect
October 2018 - April 2019 Deutsche Bank

Led a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers to design and develop a management portal for an internal big-data platform used throughout the bank. Bridged the gap between technical and designers whilst identifying capabilities and problem-solving availability of data, security issues and deployment to internal cloud infrastructure

Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
October 2016 - September 2018 Viion / Babcock / Royal Navy

Led a small team of developers and artists to create a Unity3D platform for training underground miners, and Royal Navy commanding officers on a Nuclear Submarine (declassified, representation of a realistic attack submarine). Designed and developed the back end and real-time model of the mine and submarine that realistically modelled in world physics and enabled training facilitators to trigger in world disaster events and observe the actions taken by participants. These scenarios led to real world training outcomes and identified areas for improvement in the participants learning and experiences.

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Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
March 2015 - November 2015 The World Bank

Built a first of its kind portal enabling the African diaspora to find opportunities to invest and hire people from Africa. This was a proof of concept that focused on North Africa (Maghreb), it successfully demonstrated the need and interest for Africans living outside of Africa and those in Africa seeking finance and opportunities. The concept was selected for further investment and further development by an internal team at the World Bank.

Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
November 2011 - September 2017 Carbon River / Vital Metrics

Converted an existing single user excel based tool and created a web portal enabling multiple analysts to work on environmental impact reports simultaneously. This platform reduced the time taken to create an environmental impact report for a global company from a week or more down to a day. The tool could calculate millions of datapoints instantaneously, enabling clients to explore their data quickly and easily gain valuable insights without having the prior expert knowledge.

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Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
July 2013 - August 2017 Invest in Africa

Built a greenfield platform for Invest in Africa enabling local suppliers to bid on tenders from global companies operating in these countries that would otherwise be out of reach. Supported their growth from Ghana into Kenya through the expansion of the platform. This was handed over to a local team in Kenya as part of their investment and expansion in Africa.

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Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
November 2011 - September 2017 Coupon Kick Start

Developed an algorithm to enable shoppers to combine their coupons with store sales and group them into multiple transactions to maximise rewards and savings. These transactions would often result in savings up to 100%. Typically, a dedicated shopper would spend an entire day each week workout on their optimal shop based on the available deals and their coupons, the algorithm reduced this time to less than a second once the shopper had selected their coupons and sales.

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Software Architect & Fullstack Engineer
September 2011 - January 2012 GHF Global / Futures First

Managed a design team and worked with client to create a new corporate brand and website, implemented the website including incorporating live streaming data from global futures exchanges. Updated their live futures trading simulator to incorporate this new design language.

Lead Technologist
July 2011 - January 2012 Nomura

Designed a new Global Research Portal used by all traders and clients of the bank to access and subscribe to analyst and financial reports provided by Nomura. Interviewed globally Traders, Analysts and Clients of Nomura to determine functional changes to ensure the platform fulfilled their needs.