About Me

Engineering Director at the intersection of AI, data, and financial technology

Leadership Profile

Engineering leader who builds high-performing teams, ships production solutions, and drives adoption through rigorous Agile practices and close partnership with business and technology leaders. Recognized for shaping vision and execution for AI-enabled products that transform investment and distribution workflows while fostering an inclusive, learning-oriented culture.

Core Competencies

AI (LLMs, NLP, GenAI) SDLC & Delivery Rigor Enterprise Partnership Data Engineering Financial Systems Coaching & Talent Development Agile Operating Model

Experience

Engineering Director

T. Rowe Price - Data Insights

New York, NY | Jan 2020 - Present

  • • Leads AI Engineering, uniting software, data science, and business expertise to deliver AI-enabled applications across Investments and Distribution
  • • Grew and developed leaders, promoted managers, and built a culture of accountability, inclusion, and learning through Kaizen weeks and GenAI enablement

Engineering Manager

T. Rowe Price - Investments

New York, NY | Jan 2017 - Jan 2020

  • • Built solutions for portfolio managers and modelers to view holdings in real time and be alerted when positions deviated from targets
  • • Led a team through reverse-engineering a legacy system and designed a reactive platform using AWS and React on OpenFin

Quant Software Architect

PeerIQ

New York, NY | Jun 2015 - Dec 2016

  • • Developed a risk analytics platform for marketplace lending using proprietary loan models
  • • Built a Django backend leveraging AWS for Monte Carlo simulations across entire portfolios

Business Solutions Engineer

OpenGamma

New York, NY | Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

  • • Implemented Initial and Variation Margin calculations in the risk engine for Interest Rate Swaps, Futures, and CDS
  • • Contributed to open-source project Strata for derivatives valuation

Software Engineer

Murex

New York, NY | Jun 2006 - Dec 2013

  • • Led the Rapid Application Development team for front-office solutions on the Murex platform
  • • Implemented support for MBS and ABS, integrating Intex and ADCO cashflow engines

Skills

Languages

C/C++ Java JavaScript Python R Scala

Frameworks

Spring Boot Play Akka Django React Docker AWS GraphQL

AI & Data

OpenAI GPT Llama RAG AWS Kendra Databricks Spark ElasticSearch

Practices

Domain-Driven Design EventStorming Test-Driven Design Agile

Education

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, IL | 2003

Major in Signal Processing. PhD candidate in Biomedical Systems Modeling.

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

E.N.S.E.A.

Cergy-Pontoise, France | 2003