Erik Bass

Technology Director @ The Singleton Foundation

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Director Of Technology at Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    • Create & deploy company's tech strategy - architecting product tech stacks, building internal business apps & systems, staying ahead of new tech, handling negotiations with agencies & suppliers • Manage complete IT needs for business - hardware, cloud systems, data pipelines, analytics, backend automations, etc. • Manage multiple engineering teams building a variety of different apps --- video streaming, learning system / healthy habit builder, educational multiplayer video game, etc. • Manage development of several websites

  • Co-Founder & CTO at Ap Capital
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

    • Developed proprietary automated trading platform with complete tech stack from scratch. python based, includes:  ◦ Live market trading application - real-time event-driven, mixed API, trading real money, optimized for reliability and automation  ◦ Custom-built backtesting suite - models iteratively fine-tuned with analysis using machine learning, pandas, & stats, backend is SQL and AWS, optimized for speed and throughput • Translate business objectives into tech - coding abstract trading ideas, dev scheduling & workflow process improvement, capital risk management. • Evaluating and choosing platforms and vendors for IT & technology architecture. • Supporting communication between design and development teams for maintaining strategic clarity and production flow.

  • Data Scientist at Metis
    Aug 2017 - Jan 2018 · 6 mos

    • Completed a 12-week project-focused immersive data science bootcamp, centered on python core, total project pipeline development, and presentation. • Topics include: Machine learning model development in python, data visualization, cloud architecture, SQL, presentation content and delivery.

  • Zen Monk at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2017 · 6 mos

    • Lived as a Zen monk, meditating and supporting the monastery through work as practice.

  • Co-Active Training Institute (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • Sales Team Lead, San Francisco
      Oct 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • In 18 months, went from 100% cold-calls to consistent top-10 salesperson every month. • Co-lead a team of 5 in account management, business development, marketing, fulfillment. • Taught over 100 personal development workshops on becoming a powerful communicator.

    • Senior Financial Analyst
      Jan 2015 - Oct 2015 · 10 mos

      • Developed finance and accounting system for a $9M complete company restructure, from corporate-owned to franchise model. • Built financial models, reports, dashboards, and presentations for management planning and strategy.