I am a software and systems engineer with over ten years of experience applying my expertise in computational science and applied mathematics to a variety of engineering application domains. My specialties include large-scale workflows for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure; and advanced package-management for modern scientific software stacks. I have lead the design and development of many novel solutions to computing challenges in the life sciences, defense applications, and most recently, our capital markets.

In my most recent role, I was part of the Foundational Software group at Citadel, where I worked to advance the state-of-the-art in scalable software management. The group’s efforts enabled key capabilities within the firm’s core engineering function, forming the backbone of the trading systems relied on by thousands of traders across hundreds of trading desks firm wide. Our contributions helped lay the groundwork culminating in the recent record-breaking performance of the firm’s funds.

Prior to Citadel, I was a Staff Engineer at Kitware, a software consulting firm best known for their work on the VTK, ParaView, and CMake open source projects. At Kitware, I worked within the Data and Analytics group, where I contributed full-stack engineering and DevOps expertise to a number of their internal software products. These products would later go on to form the core of Resonant, a suite of tools enabling the rapid development of web-based data and analytics applications. During my seven-year tenure at Kitware, I worked on a variety of projects, including a web application for multi-modal analysis of cancer data, cloud workflows for AI training and inference on satellite images, and better tooling for scientific software builds.

Prior to Kitware, I was part of the Science and Engineering Application Support team at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where I performed acceptance testing- and user support for- the Blue Waters Sustained Petascale Supercomputer. At the time, Blue Waters was one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, capable of more than 13 Petaflops of sustained application performance. During this time, I worked closely with the application teams to help them make the most out of their allocations; debugging, porting, optimizing and developing scientific codes covering a broad array of applications, including quantum chemistry, bioinformatics, cosmology, and earth science. I also made contributions to the Blue Waters education and outreach initiatives, where I served as engineering liaison to several external partners, mentored students and early-career scientists, and provided technical training internally and at external events. Among these include events at the National Computational Science Institute, annual meetings of the Cray User Group (2014, 2015) the Compute Canada HPC Summer School, and the NCSA SPIN program.

I earned my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computational Mathematics from Kean University, where I studied in the School of Integrative Science and Technology. My research focused on parallel numerical algorithms for the simulation of continuous, dynamic multi-physics systems characterized by partial differential equations.