Professional Experience
AMTA
Career Shift
Belvedere
Applications Developer
June 2025 - Present
Junior Applications Developer, August 2023 - June 2025
Junior Applications Developer
August 2023 - June 2025
  • Actively maintain four .NET code repositories to ensure performance and reliability for over 100,000 members.
  • Led development to improve accessibility, by integrating with Google's Text-To-Speech API for long form content, adding language translation functionality, and integrating UserWay's accessibility widget.
  • Improved SEO through programmatically generating schema structures for a variety of different page types.
  • Built new Events Management App to automate in-person events, decreasing attendee wait times, providing exhibitors access to easy lead tracking, and reducing staff man-hours for manual validation by hundreds of hours yearly. Developed using NextJS and Firebase, with custom .NET API endpoints to sync data between netFORUM db.
Pursued Career Change
March 2022 - August 2023
  • Left trading to recharge and reevaluate career path and goals, which ultimately led me to pursue career a in programming.
  • Enrolled in a bootcamp with Fullstack Academy to brush up on coding and learn new skills regarding web development.
  • Brushed up on other languages I had previously used, such as C# and Python, and worked on honing skills.
Hybrid Trader
July 2015 - March 2022
  • Engaged in options market making in Natural Gas (3.5 years - with brokers and electronically) and SPX (2.5 years - electronically).
  • Analyzed specific recurring trading patterns to tune electronic systems to capture maximal edge during different periods throughout the day. Pulled relevant data using SQL.
  • Analyzed positions the SPX tended to accumulate in low delta options across different terms to expiration in order to better manage electronic sizing and market widths; recommended model parameter adjustments to the Vol Managers to avoid accumulating unfavorable positions.
  • During tech rotation in first year, rebuilt proprietary application in C# that displayed real-time trade activity. Enabled traders to customize settings to improve focus and actionability.
  • Actively maintain four .NET code repositories to ensure performance and reliability for over 100,000 members.
  • Led development to improve accessibility, by integrating with Google's Text-To-Speech API for long form content, adding language translation functionality, and integrating UserWay's accessibility widget.
  • Improved SEO through programmatically generating schema structures for a variety of different page types.
  • Developed new Events Management App to automate in-person events, decreasing attendee wait times, providing exhibitors access to easy lead tracking, and reducing staff man-hours for manual validation by hundreds of hours yearly. Built using NextJS and Firebase, with custom .NET API endpoints to sync data between netFORUM db.
Technical Skills
Programming
C#, Javascript, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS
Tools
Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SQL Server Management Studio, PostgreSQL, Git, SourceTree, Postman
Frameworks & Platforms
ASP .NET (MVC, Web API, Web Pages), Next, Tailwind, Express
Firebase, GCP, Azure, Optimizely, netFORUM AMS