Vasko Yordanov
Data Platform Lead
Greater NYC Area,NY
Summary
15 Years of expertise in building architecture and systems to revolutionize data collection and analysis for industry-leading financial services companies. Track record of delivering game-changing capabilities for decision-making while propelling business efficiency, scalability, data reliability, and systems security. Excel in working with C-level business stakeholders to align solutions with business needs. Hands-on team leader who champions innovation and collaboration.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
JP MORGAN
NEW YORK, NY
11.2023 - Current
- Fusion Architecture team - large scale Service oriented and Microservices AWS based platform leveraging Spring boot, Java 21, Postgres SQL, Containerization
- Explored POCs for Integration of JPM's LLM suite inside Fusion ecosystem
- Conducted regular evaluations of system architecture, collaborating with project management to enhance design and implementation via ADR (Architecture Decision Records) and Architecture proposals
- Used Kafka, Spark, and Akka Actor framework to implement an event sourcing architecture by leveraging Kafka and employing Spark for processing and analyzing real-time data streams and using Actors to facilitate the seamless transformation and integration of events into scalable, resilient applications
- Architected and implemented an AWS cloud-native data solution tailored for institutional investors, delivering comprehensive end-to-end data management, analytics, and reporting capabilities across the investment lifecycle using AWS EKS, with a focus on multitenancy, microservices, and data mesh solutions, which significantly improved operational efficiency and data insight accuracy
DATA PLATFORM TEAM LEAD
EXODUSPOINT CAPITAL
NEW YORK, NY
03.2022 - 08.2023
- Manage a team of 10 Data Engineers for the firm's core data platform
- Define and execute strategy for AWS Architectural roadmap
- Leverage the following: Terraform IAC, AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis, AWS DynamoDB, AWS API Gateway, VPC IAM permissions, Event Driven Architecture
- Oversee the design, development, and implementation of firm data pipelines' architecture
- Leading implementation of Tick Data capture archive platform (LSE, Nasdaq, CME) leveraging Java low latency libraries (Chronicle)
- Build Kafka and Spark streaming pipelines for external vendor ingestion of large volume market data on and performing compute on EMR
- Conducted regular progress reviews with individual team members to identify areas for improvement and provide guidance on career development opportunities.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Amazon AWS
NEW YORK, NY
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Java/Scala back-end development, as part of AWS FinSpace - new Amazon service leveraging: AWS CDK, Lambda, Step Function Workflows, SageMaker, EMR, Jupiter, DynamoDB and Microservices
- Worked on FINRA's EMR cluster optimization
- Involved in Architecture, Design Discussion, and Implementation of a brand-new AWS Service
- Implemented distributed framework to process analytic queries from SageMaker notebooks to EMR cluster
- Built a highly secured networking blueprint with GovCloud and deployed 'Infrastructure as code' EMR cluster that is accessible only via Direct Connect and private VPC network interfaces through Lambda and API Gateway
- Setup VPC, private subnets, transit gateway, security groups, route table rules, imposed traffic boundaries
- Regularly reviewed peers'' code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
LEAD DATA ENGINEER VICE PRESIDENT
Cerberus Capital Management
NEW YORK, NY
03.2018 - 08.2020
- Steer the delivery of business data for simplified analysis by developing, maintaining, and testing infrastructures for data generation
- Ensure architecture meets business stakeholder needs
- Coordinate with the data science team to understand user and content trends that influence product changes and customer acquisition strategies
- Managed Data engineering team
- Responsible for resource capacity planning of offshore consultants and allocation to projects
- Mentored junior developers
- Provisioned Azure cloud account for Data Team
- Saved effort and time for a financial services company by engineering platform architecture to process distressed non-performing loans leveraging Azure Cloud - Databricks, Azure functions, ETL pipelines on Azure Data Factory
- Delivered analytic capabilities, bolstered efficiency, and cut costs for a major oil company
- Partnered with C-suite executives and field equipment experts to architect and implement Spark/Scala streaming application for time series consumer oil metrics via satellite into Google Cloud PubSub component and GCP dataproc
- Enabled greater scale and reduced IT footprint by spearheading a 'lift and shift' cloud migration for portfolio companies with minimal downtime while coordinating with C-level management
SOFTWARE ENGINEER VICE PRESIDENT
Goldman Sachs
NEW YORK, NY
03.2016 - 11.2017
- Foundational engineering of big data platforms from the ground up
- Analyzed requirements, planned project, and created data pipeline, infrastructure, and data lake
- Coordinated across internal business groups
- Facilitated improved decision-making by quant traders by building a custom big data platform to process real-time and historical volumes of data for deriving Alpha signals
- Implemented Data Ingestion pipeline for unstructured and quantitative data sources (WorldScope, Ibes) to Hadoop and migrated legacy data sources to unified Kafka/Spark platform
- Built connector components for data lake utilizing Akka framework
- Designed NLP models (Scikit, NumPy) for text analytics to classify financial news topics
- Integrated new technologies into existing systems, increasing capabilities and improving overall performance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NBCertfied Apache Spark Developer -
Databricks
Skills
Apache Spark
Kafka
Hadoop
NIFI
Akka
Camel
Hazelcast
Scikit
Drools
Neo4J
Java
Scala
Python
C/C
Perl
UNIX Shell Scripting
AWS EMR
undefinedCertification
Certified Apache Spark Developer, Databricks
Technical Toolkit
Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, NIFI, Akka, Camel, Hazelcast, Scikit, Drools, Neo4J, Java, Scala, Python, C/C++ (exposure), Perl, UNIX Shell Scripting/AWK, AWS EMR, Google Cloud (Dataproc), Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, DynamoDB, SageMaker, Kinesis, Landing Zone, Lambdas, GCP (DataProc, BigQuery, PubSub), Microsoft Azure, Azure (Databricks, Data Factory ETL, Azure Functions)
Professional Development
- Scalable Machine Learning
- Hadoop Development
- Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Timeline
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
JP MORGAN
11.2023 - Current
DATA PLATFORM TEAM LEAD
EXODUSPOINT CAPITAL
03.2022 - 08.2023
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Amazon AWS
09.2020 - 03.2022
LEAD DATA ENGINEER VICE PRESIDENT
Cerberus Capital Management
03.2018 - 08.2020
SOFTWARE ENGINEER VICE PRESIDENT
Goldman Sachs
03.2016 - 11.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of New Brunswick
Certfied Apache Spark Developer -
Databricks
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