PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024Jul 2024 - Present

Zandbox, LLC

Project Manager & Senior Front-End Engineer

Leading a cross-functional team of 6 engineers to architect and deliver institutional-grade financial platforms. Driving engineering culture through code reviews, CI/CD automation, and accessibility-first design.

  • Engineered a high-performance MT5 Accounting dashboard reducing trade reporting latency by 60%, serving 500+ concurrent institutional users with 99.95% uptime SLA
  • Led a team of 6 engineers across 3 time zones; established code review culture, sprint ceremonies, and mentored 2 junior developers to mid-level promotions
  • Architected a feature-based monorepo with Turborepo, shared ESLint/Prettier configs, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and 85%+ test coverage gates — increasing developer velocity by 40%
  • Developed a WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant design system with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS; enforced Axe/Lighthouse audits in CI pipeline, achieving 98+ accessibility scores across all modules
  • Designed and implemented a custom KYC/AML orchestration engine handling 10k+ monthly verifications with automated compliance scoring and audit trails
Next.js 15TypeScriptTailwind CSSWebSocketsTurborepoRadix UIGitHub ActionsPlaywrightAxe
2021Mar 2021 - Jul 2024

FastBull

Frontend Developer

Scale-up phase engineering for a leading forex analytics platform serving 200K+ monthly active users. Focused on performance engineering, data visualization, and establishing a testing culture.

  • Optimized Core Web Vitals (LCP < 1.2s, CLS < 0.05) for the analytics dashboard serving 200K+ MAU, improving SEO ranking and user retention by 25%
  • Developed interactive candlestick and heat-map visualizations with accessible color palettes and ARIA-live regions for real-time forex signals
  • Reduced application bundle size by 35% through code-splitting, tree-shaking, and lazy hydration; implemented Lighthouse CI gates in deployment pipeline
  • Established unit and integration testing culture with Jest and React Testing Library, achieving 80%+ coverage on critical trading signal components
ReactHighchartsReduxSASSViteJestReact Testing LibraryLighthouse CI
2021Jan 2021 - Jul 2024

Quantitative Trading Systems

MQL5 & Python Quant Developer

Designing and backtesting automated trading strategies across distributed infrastructure. Bridging the gap between mathematical models and fault-tolerant execution systems.

  • Developed an ensemble of Mean-Reversion and Trend-Following EAs for MetaTrader 5 with a 15% Sharpe Ratio improvement
  • Built a custom Python backtesting suite utilizing VectorBT and Pandas for ultra-fast multi-symbol strategy validation
  • Implemented automated risk management protocols (Dynamic SL/TP) across 20+ live trading accounts with real-time monitoring dashboards
  • Architected a distributed data pipeline ingesting 1-minute OHLC data from 12+ exchanges into a TimeScaleDB cluster with automated failover and 99.9% data integrity SLA
MQL5PythonPandasNumPyTimeScaleDBVectorBTDocker
2018Apr 2018 - May 2020

dYdX Ecosystem

Open Source Contributor & Technical Documentation

Early-stage involvement in the leading decentralized perpetual exchange. Contributed to open-source frontend, facilitated user onboarding, and built technical knowledge bases.

  • Contributed 15+ merged PRs to the open-source dYdX frontend, triaging and resolving UI/UX bugs across the trading interface
  • Authored over 50+ technical articles and guides on decentralized margin trading and perpetual contracts
  • Spearheaded the creation of an automated developer FAQ bot, reducing support ticket volume by 30%
  • Gained deep operational knowledge of L2 Ethereum scaling solutions, ZK-rollups, and distributed consensus mechanisms
ReactTypeScriptTechnical WritingDeFiEthereumDiscord API

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