David Brown

at Eckhardt Trading

Highland Park, Illinois, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Developer/Research Adjunct at Eckhardt Trading Company
    Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

    DB design/refactor, research infrastructure and pipelines, cloud migration,various middle, back office systems, FIX connections. Tech footprint:Python 3.x/Pandas, C/C++/C#, MS SQL Server, SQLlite, postgres,

  • Director of IT at Chora Capital
    Jul 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Director of IT for this long/short hedge fund startup. Involved in all aspects of software development for both infrastructure and research. Hands on Architecture, data management, software and research. Mentoring in various capacities. Tech footprint: Distributed systems, Cloud (AWS), Linux/Centos, C++11, Python(Anaconda stack), C, MySQL, bash/awk/sed.

  • Hands on Agile Team Lead at Fidelity Insurance
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 · 6 mos

    Hands on Agile team and developer lead for this well known firm who pioneered online insurance services. Projects to upgrade/refactor core web based system as well as ramp up the development/management model to a more robust, best practice Agile/JIRA environment. Tech footprint:Windows IIS 6/IIS 7, .Net C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, TDD, Agile/JIRA, Nunit/Jenkins, AWS/S3 SOAP/REST. Team consisted of two delevopers, one business analyst.

  • Software Engineer Consultant at LaSalle Technology
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2014 · 7 mos

    Software development for consulting firm focused in the Financial sector. Worked on system to refactor a well known data vendors pricing/valuation system from batch to SOA. Also worked on project to refactor a hedge funds infrastructure from R/SQL Server to a .Net based system. Tech footprint: .Net 4.5, C#, RabbitMQ, Redis, REST, SQL Server, R, QuickFix

  • Co Director of IT at Prescient Ridge Management LLC
    2009 - Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    CTA/CPO short term frequency managed futures fund. Developed core systems and infrastructure (trade/order mgmt, trade allocation, new execution, trade, risk and portfolio mgmt systems) involved to a lesser degree in systematic research. Technology footprint: Windows/C#/.Net, RabbitMQ, SQL Server2005-2012. Visual C++,