• Led platform engineering for a $XXB quant business—research tools, compute efficiency, ci/cd pipelines, k8s research environments, and dev experience
• Architected the hybrid cloud/on-prem Kubernetes platform (scaling to 5k+ cores, 100+TB) and owned the Google Cloud relationship and all GCP infra
• Promoted to team lead, owning hiring and career development (350+ interviews), performance reviews, and roadmap with research
• Drove AI tooling strategy including agent frameworks, MCP servers, async coding agents serving 200+ daily interactions and 50%+ of merged code
• Integrated sandboxed research environments in an interactive research cluster, enabling agentic workflows on sensitive code and data
• Built low-latency trading APIs (gRPC, C++, kdb+/q), delivering streaming access to real-time and historical orders and executions