Menno Van Diermen

Fintech @ Tradeweb | Ex-NASA | Engineering & Product Leader

New York, New York, United States

About

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In a world with ever-increasing levels of cognitive complexity and overhead, nothing is more important than being able to distill information down to the minimally viable necessities. This is and has been my North Star, while building research prototypes in academia, building developer products at NASA, and building logistics products at NYSHEX. It continues to guide me in dealing with problems, projects and people. Let's make the world better, simply.

Experience

  • Director, New Product Engineering at Tradeweb
    Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • Team Lead, New Products at Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD)
    Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 · 5 mos

    Acquired by Tradeweb August 2024.

  • Head of Product & Engineering (Fractional) at Talknician
    Feb 2024 - Jul 2024 · 6 mos

    Lead & manage ideation, design, and build-out of production-ready MVP in 4 months on <6-figure budget through to initial onboarding of customers.

  • NYSHEX (New York, New York, United States · Hybrid)
    • Engineering Manager & Product Manager
      Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 · 5 mos

      • People, project & strategic management of 10-16 developers across 2-3 full-stack teams with 3 distinct product domains: NVOCC Experience, Dispute Management & Reconciliation, & Platform Frontend. • Supported 20-30k multilateral dispute interactions per month and 100s of daily active users with interactive resolution tools. Product manager for Dispute Management & Reconciliation. Owned priorities & backlog, customer interactions & requirements gathering, and product iteration and launch. • Supported & enabled over $12M in annual revenue by launching B2B SaaS products fed by automated data feeds & operations teams, such as BI solutions, white label SaaS products and email notifications. • Managed team lead, product lead & stakeholders to deliver product requirements, solutions, roadmaps. • Mentored engineers on architecting for scale, system design, and professional & personal development. • Participated in hiring at all levels, including my own, and developed new interview techniques. Tech: AWS, Java Spring, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub, React.js

    • Engineering Manager
      Oct 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr

  • NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (On-site)
    • Lead Software Engineer
      Aug 2019 - Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      • Delivered and iterated upon NASA Cumulus cloud and serverless application framework which ingests 100s of TB a day across millions of data points at a dozen NASA & gov’t data centers. • Team Lead for 5-12 member NASA Cumulus team, worked with stakeholders to gather requirements, manage & prioritize backlog, lead technical discussions and improve development & testing standards. • Lead engineer on Terraform IaC and Atlassian Bamboo CI/CD implementation, and zero-downtime multi-region database migration from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL. • Additional DevOps role maintaining NASA LP DAAC’s Cumulus production environment. Tech: AWS, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Terraform, Elasticsearch, React.js, SQL, NoSQL, Docker

    • Software Engineer
      Sep 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

      On-Site Software Engineer with NASA/USGS Land Processes DAAC contracted through Innovate! Inc. More about Cumulus: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis-cumulus-project Open-source code at https://github.com/nasa/cumulus