BRIAN CHEN

Chief Cloud Architect with responsibility for the overall developer experience and core infrastructure strategy for the firm.

• Core Engineering Head owning all cloud networking, service mesh, SDLC, Platform Engineering and Devops.
• Lead Architect on Firmwide Core build and deployment pipeline for all software and infrastructure as code.
• Creation of Integrated Development Portal that allows a single pane for all services within the firm that combines both software repositories and cloud resources.
• Strategy, Design and execution of public facing cloud services at the firm. Includes all build systems, core infrastructure, sdlc, core caching components, edge computing all globally distributed.
• Developed DevSecOps practice and onboarding program for custom developed applications resulting in 16 to 80 times faster deployment times.
• Generated data center consolidation and cloud migration strategy to yield a $10MM save over a 5-year period. The strategy incorporates the migration of fund accounting apps to managed services, public cloud migration to AWS, and Office 365 migration.
• Founded c-level cloud steering committee responsible for high level direction of cloud practice
• Defined standard language templates and builds.
• Defining maturity matrix of modern application stack across the public clouds, including Service mesh, ci/cd pipelines, and developer portals.
• Defined and executed strategy for migration of all BAAM applications from on premise to cloud, including 400+ new microservices built on modern Kubernetes clusters and legacy applications built into Windows Containers on EKS. Reducing on premise DataCenter footprint from 100+ servers to 0.
• Defined migration strategy for the lift and shift of 400 workloads to private cloud (successfully completed migration within 10 months).
• Lead Data Science modernization effort, which included Jupyterhub on Kubernetes, central api driven data microservices, and custom in house policy server implementations for authorization
• Founded DevOps practice, which includes all build systems, Ci/CD and cloud best practices, container standardizations.
• Authored Best Practice DevOps culture within the firm, utilizing industry best practices along with firm business aligned objectives.
• Lead development and engineering of Continuous Integration environment for multiple codebases (includes fully automating builds, quality assurance, application documentation, and application metrics)
• Founded C-Level cloud architecture review boards, that set high level technical direction for firm's cloud efforts.
• Established cloud working groups that help developers define cloud policy and standards, solutions architecture, security and operational procedures.
• Founding Member of the Cloud Risk Architecture Review Board, which aims and establishes firm best practices for cloud based applications. Instituted an automated code review for each git commit.
• Mentor to 20+ analysts across business lines within the firm, helping foster growth, technological enablement and cross functional knowledge sharing.
• Lead the Risk Assessment and mitigation through automate code review inline with CI/CD process, allowing for automated vulnerability checks and actions taken before code reaches any system.

• Responsible for the design, deployment, and ongoing management of TradeWind Trading infrastructure and systems
• All infrastructure in high-availability data center environments, and cloud based infrastructure in AWS and GCP
• Planning and development of lan/wan, server and storage infrastructure installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all network hardware, software, operation centers, and communication links
• AWS and On-premise budgeting, including 5M+ in spend and networking leases.
• Participated in all phases of system development life cycle, from requirements analysis through system implementation.
• Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
• Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.

• Responsible for all aspects of proprietary trading system, including design, build and operational functions
• Develop functional designs, prototypes, process designs, testing, training, and definition of support procedures, while building collaborative culture for both developers and operations to foster quick time to market
• Team of 3 DevOps, that includes unique duties of daily trading management, along with Linux engineering duties and daily production support
• Research and development for emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies
• Virtualization lead, moving from HyperV to ESX
• Spearheaded Trading System Design and Development, including build automation, deployment
• Architected and implementing enterprise storage leveraging hybrid cloud solution providing scalable, resilient and cost effective platform
• Evaluated upcoming program plans to forecast expected resource needs.
• Implemented policies and standard operating procedures for continuous improvement.
• Worked closely with organizational leadership, including board of directors, to strategically affect direction of operations.

• Largely focused on Parallel Storage Systems that form Big Data backbone
• Worked with various customers in Financial Services space to optimize their performance needs, which include high performance compute and storage. Emphasis placed on low latency, with abstracting most out of large data sets
• Visualization tool sets along with data mining and kernel tuning
• Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components and systems.
• Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
• Strategized technical support plans and designed budgets, timelines and scopes for over 100+ customers

• Global Arbitrage Trading Desk with responsibilities for all infrastructure (Unix, storage, monitoring, time sync, networking) engineering
• Development of Feed Handlers and Trading Engines alongside kernel tuning. Focused on low latency infrastructure design , monitoring, tuning and all things related in race to zero
• Build system design with open source applications, collection of performance metrics and charting real-time monitoring and evaluation of latest software offerings
• Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components and systems.
• Prepared cost estimates, schedules and project specifications for proposals.

• Responsible for all Infrastructure (Unix, storage, monitoring, time sync, networking) decisions and operational needs
• Organize implementation and rollout of new trading strategies at co-locations including automation of binaries/logs/configs and monitoring gap detection, both in shell scripts and Perl
• Build-outs and design of 10G plant and related hardware (Arista/Mellanox/Solarflare)
• Benchmarking of latest hardware offerings. Systemtaps on kernels implemented to monitorsub millisecond NIC/CPU data
• Precision Timing Solution implemented based on FSMLabs timekeeper software with Spectracom PPS PCI cards all connected to Spectracom SecureSync Timing Device
• Corvil Infrastructure, utilizing Endace probes, Netops taps and Simena Flow switches to monitor each packet in and out of servers
• Manage team of developers to collect, warehouse and organize market data for quantitative research and daily trading decision support
• Market MicroStructure

• Various Scale out Systems Management builds and deployments

• Desktop Services, along with build automation and configuration management
• Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
• Installed, configured, tested and maintained operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Built and maintained network infrastructure consisting of Windows, Linux and virtual products.
• Completed technical reviews of existing systems and suggested updates or changes, resulting in zero downtime.