Hi, I'm Alex.

Working on the dashboards team to help make data visualization more interactive.

Helped build software that would accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.

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  • Proposed and led an effort to store data in a graph database instead of an SQL database. This allowed for a much more robust search experience and reduced search times from seconds to milliseconds for users.
  • Added a background queue that spun off threads for processing longer running tasks triggered by a Flask app.
  • Introduced websockets into Flask app to give users visibility into what is happening on background threads.
  • Added an admin portal to the Flask app for viewing system logs, managing application metadata, and pulling in new data.

Developed an exchange simulator in C++ built to mimic the ARCA options exchange.

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  • Developed an exchange simulator in C++ built to mimic the ARCA options exchange.
  • Implemented a system for reading binary protocol messages from clients and parsing them into meaningful messages.
  • Spun off multiple processes and threads to handle connections from many clients at once.
  • Implemented an order book and matching engine according to the ARCA spec.
  • Learned the fundamentals of how the firm models and prices options.

Built software for researchers.

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  • Built a web app to simplify compliance workflow for researchers.
  • Built a REST service for consuming and processing multiple internal API's.
  • Built a frontend for visualizing data from researcher's publications, and generating and editing compliance reports from the data.
  • Deployed app on an AWS instance.