Ryan Van Duren

• Responded promptly to client requests pertaining to Smart Order Routing strategies, adeptly crafting, testing, and deploying multiple changes within single trading days.
• Contributed to a strategic initiative to construct a cutting-edge trading platform from the ground up.
• Spearheaded the development of a reference data framework optimizing static data delivery to trading applications, resulting in heightened efficiency, and monitoring capabilities.
• Collaborated closely with the DevOps team to engineer operational and monitoring tools that not only mitigate risk but also optimize system control, ensuring compliance with stringent audit regulations while maximizing trading performance.

• Tasked with developing a Java application that extracts key metrics from incoming client order messages and publish them to Grafana in real time for analysis.
• Leveraged Agile methodologies to move development lifecycle rapidly through initial prototyping to enterprise-quality testing and final implementation.
• Assessed code during testing stage to determine potential glitches and bugs.

Acted as a software developer for the Sound Department of the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (RCAIT). Daily activities varied based on the priorities of RCAIT employees and included developing code, reading documentation, analyzing and improving existing code, determining which calculations are possible based on the existing data from each year, and more.