Objective

A senior developer/consultant position in a goal-oriented team where talent is an asset (Toronto and GTA).

Summary of Assets

Experience and solid scientific background: can work with a high degree of autonomy.
Responsibility: when I am best suited for a difficult task, I never try to avoid it or push it over to someone else.

Work Experience

Citigroup (Mississauga, ON)
August 2011 - present
Senior Developer

Authored Jade, a markup language, API and service for complex, data-driven, interactive mobile, web and PDF presentations (Java, JavaScript). Based on open-source libraries (Dojo, iText, jFreeChart), Jade drove down recurrent development costs by totally eliminating commercial frameworks. Partnered with other server-side teams to integrate Jade into various data engines. Worked with business analysts and front-end teams on requirements. Assisted a global team of support engineers via phone, email, forum, exhaustive wiki documentation.
Prototyped a multi-indexing solution for a Hadoop-based distributed storage system (Java).
Designed and developed connectors for a data engine (Java, JMS).

Geotab (Oakville, ON)
September 2009 - August 2011
Senior Developer

Produced and field-tested an original auto-calibrating algorithm for detecting driving events, such as harsh accelerations, brakes and turns, based on the input from a randomly mounted accelerometer and a GPS unit (Matlab, C). Patent pending.
Designed and implemented geodetic algorithms based on open data sources (OpenStreetMap, Tiger database), including custom R-tree and Q-tree spatial indexes, road speed limit and fuel tax calculations (C#, PostgreSQL, ESRI shape files).
Designed and implemented low-latency ultra-compact in-memory and memory-mapped models for querying large amounts of geodetic data (C#). A complete North America road database requires less than 5GB of RAM and can be queried at a 30K/sec rate.
Ported the company's back-end product from SQL Server to PostgreSQL (C#).
Designed, implemented and maintained a Selenium-based unit testing framework for the company's front-end web product (C#, JavaScript).
Coded and tested scripts and pages for the company's front-end web product (JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, HTML, CSS).

Aleri (Murray Hill, NJ)
June 2007 - September 2009
Developer

Designed and developed connection adapters for the company's Streaming Platform. SP is a complex event processing (CEP) engine running on a variety of platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, Windows. The adapters are either built into the SP or standalone and communicating with SP via a pubsub interface. Responsible for the full development cycle (requirement analysis, prototypes, design, coding, unit testing, benchmarking, documentation) of the following adapters:

Bloomberg adapter (Java) receives market feed data from the Bloomberg server API.
FIX adapter (Java) relies on QuickFIX for session management and message parsing, translates the messages into the SP format, picks up the outbound messages from the SP, FIX-encodes them, and uses QuickFIX to send them to the destination.
IDC (Interactive Data Corporation) adapter (Java) receives real-time market data and order book updates from IDC data feeds.
ISE (International Security Exchange) adapter (Java) receives data as FAST-encoded FIX messages. Designed a proprietary FAST decoder and optimized the SP pubsub interface with a more than 50% performance gain.
HTTP adapter (Java) receives SQL queries from HTTP clients, such as web browsers and Silverlight, and streams SP data back to the clients as chunk-coded HTTP responses.
JMS adapter (C++, Java) provides a two-way data flow between the SP and a message broker. Data is stored both as text (delimited records, XML) and Java objects.
A proprietary implementation of Open Adaptor (Java) carries data between the SP and a variety of data sources, such as Atlas, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgresql, JMS, mail server. Work directly with customers, as well as Aleri support and sales engineers, on maintenance and adding new components.
SQL Scraper (C++) receives data from a database via an extended stored procedure, translates and publishes data in the SP format.
Tibco Rendezvous adapter (Java) provides a two-way data flow between the SP and a Tibco RV server.
Wombat adapter (Java) receives real-time market data and order book updates from Wombat servers.

Designed an adapter SDK, which resulted in a substantial code reuse across Java adapters.

FXall (New York, NY)
May 2006 - May 2007
Developer

Responsible for the full development cycle (use cases, architecture, design, coding, testing) of the critical Forex Transaction Monitor project (Java, Spring, Hibernate, Ant). FTM is a standalone Java application that monitors changes and synchronizes data between the FXall trading system and a client-owned database.
Responsible for the full development cycle (requirements, prototypes, architecture, design, coding, testing) of the Settlement Center Administration project (JSP, JSTL, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, JMX, Big Brother, Tomcat, Ant, Maven). SCA is a 3-tier Java web application.
Interacted daily with the application support and QA teams. Worked on performance issues and bug resolution. Extensively documented the development and post-development processes (prototypes, use cases, architecture, design diagrams).

SelectMinds (New York, NY)
November 2005 - May 2006
Senior Software Engineer

Participated in the development of an Alumni Network, a 2-tier web application based on a proprietary model similar to Struts-Hibernate (Java, MySql, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Perl, Ant, Linux).

EMS Technologies (Montreal QC, Ottawa ON)
September 2000 - April 2005
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Systems Engineer

Responsible for the design and implementation of a proprietary in-memory database system (C++) and its management interface (Java, Swing) for a Return Link SubSystem. RLSS is an embedded, real-time system running VxWorks. The XML-driven hierarchical database is managed via a Web interface. Designed and coded a proprietary web server, as well as proprietary DOM and SAX parsers. The interface sends HTTP requests to the embedded web server, displays a filtered view of the database and uses color and sound to instantly notify the operator of server-side events. Designed and coded a suite of offline database configuration tools (Java, Swing).
Produced and implemented new algorithms for a Star Tracker project (Matlab, C, Visual Basic, Visual C++). ST is an embedded system functioning in a complex optical, thermal, mechanical and radiational environment It uses optical input and offline star catalogs to track the attitude of the spacecraft. Proposed and implemented a Kalman filtering algorithm that more than doubled the instrument's performance.
Produced Star Tracker test cases. Worked with the testing team on benchmarking. Analyzed test results, wrote technical reports. Worked with customers on problem resolution. Used the customer-provided telemetry information to analyze and solve a problem that nearly jeopardized one of the two star trackers deployed on the Jason mission spacecraft run by Alcatel. That helped bring the performance of the radiation-affected instrument from 10% up to 50%.

University of Timisoara (Timisoara, Romania)
October 1994 - August 2000
Associate Professor

Designed and coded Geometria (Java, Swing). Geometria simulates various operations on polyhedra and provides an intuitive user interface to compose and solve problems in solid geometry. Multi-language support. Project web site: http://geocentral.net/geometria.
Conducted research in computational geometry. Designed and coded interactive simulation software for R&D contracts (C++).
Taught courses in mathematics software, web design, algebra, geometry.

Education

BS in Mathematics - The Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
PhD in Mathematics - The Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

Legal Status

Canadian citizen