Software architecture for markets that have to work.

Leading architecture and hands-on development of financial-market infrastructure that connects institutional operating models with blockchain settlement.

• Vulcan Forge: chief architect, primary implementer, and documentation author for an enterprise platform to issue, manage, finance, and settle regulated real-world assets on Solana.
• Tokenization and settlement: built Solana programs and API workflows around Token-2022 extensions, permissioned movement, asset lifecycle, positions, trades, loans, and transaction processing.
• Keys and wallets: designed MPC/TSS key-management infrastructure and custodial and non-custodial wallet experiences using Blockdaemon Builder Vault, React Native, and Node.js.
• Institutional integration: developed FIX-based order-flow components and supported a Tradeweb collaboration for Brokered CD issuance and trading.
• Investor infrastructure: designed core components and blockchain integrations for fund subscriptions, redemptions, and position management.

Led architecture, technical sales, and delivery for large-scale search, analytics, cloud, and data platforms across global enterprises.

• Architected 3M's Kubernetes and Elasticsearch-based global B2B commerce search platform. Deployed to production in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020).
• Worked with Google on providing feedback and initial rollout support for its Cloud Search offering (enterprise search). Deployed complex enterprise retrieval systems for Electronic Arts, heavily leveraging Cloud Search's sophisticated security trimming and permissioning model.
• Led the rewrite of Mintel's data ingestion estate: Python microservices on AWS processing more than 3 billion records across 300+ cloud resources.
• Seattle Children’s Research Institute: Architect and lead the implementation of a search and visualization application - built on top of public and internal genomic databases and genome browsers.
• US National Archives: Designed and developed the functionality that allows the search and bulk UI or API extracts/exports (thousands of text-based, audio or video records at a time) in multiple formats. Documents corpus: tens of millions of items.

• DTCC: helped validate technology and system architecture for a multi-year modernization of core pricing, real-time risk analytics, reporting, and data platforms.
• OCC: contributed to the architecture of a Java/Linux replacement for pricing and margin-risk systems evaluating millions of positions and hundreds of thousands of instruments daily.
• PIMCO: architected research storage and search (using Google Search Appliances) across reports, trader commentary, Outlook, SharePoint, and enterprise sources.

Designed and delivered core clearing and risk infrastructure for the world's largest equity-derivatives clearing organization.

• Architected post-trade, positions, exercise and assignment, corporate actions and settlement modules supporting 4M+ daily positions and 500K+ financial instruments.
• Designed the FIXML trade validation engine processing 5M+ daily transactions with sub-second turnaround across all U.S. listed options markets. This system supports today 20 options and futures exchanges across US markets.
• Co-designed data interfaces from clearing systems into Monte Carlo and STANS-based risk engines, including margin simulations evaluating 3B+ data points.
• Led the team tha architected, designed and implement FIXML feeds serving regulators, exchanges, clearing firms, and service bureaus; represented OCC in FIX standards committees work.
• Directed delivery of a clearing data warehouse holding 500M+ historical transactions.