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Veronica Baker

Brooklyn

Summary

I am a Brooklyn-based young professional with a diverse background working in technology, finance, law, and consulting. I am looking forward to the next opportunity in my career.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Platform Engineer

FLAT SPELL TECHNOLOGIES
New York
02.2023 - 12.2024
  • Improved performance of martech company's proprietary CRM by an order of magnitude.
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for clients and maintained a good flow of communication and a strong working relationship with all stakeholders.
  • Redesigned key components of client's tech stacks in order to improve their business workflows.
  • Reduced technical debt by migrating monolithic C# system into cloud native microservices in Azure.
  • Redesigned Azure SQL Server database, thereby aligning data to the business workflows.
  • Worked with Azure Cloud tools like Application Insights and Azure Cost Management to optimize the client's environment.
  • Acted as a scrum master and engaged the client in agile practices including daily standups and a managed backlog of work.
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for clients and maintained a good flow of communication and a strong working relationship with all stakeholders.

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
New York
05.2017 - 02.2023
  • Member of the core team responsible for migrating BlackRock's SaaS product, Aladdin, onto the cloud.
  • Researched, architected, and deployed Aladdin onto Microsoft Azure Cloud using terraform.
  • Responsible for the initial design and deployment of Aladdin's entire network architecture via terraform using Azure's Network Security Groups (NSGs) in terraform.
  • Worked with a small team to operationalize the management of cloud network security by designing tooling for NetOps teams to update, review, and monitor changes to network infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with colleagues to architect and deploy Azure Kubernetes Service for use by Aladdin product teams.
  • Responsible for BlackRock's internal Aladdin cloud cost management tool which ingests, stores, and reports on cloud cost data from Azure.
  • Collaborated on a cross team project aimed at reducing cloud spend, operationalizing and automating workflows related to cost optimization, and making cost data transparent and trustworthy.
  • Managed rotational software engineering analysts.

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
New York
02.2019 - 02.2020
  • Delivered enhancements to BlackRock's internal orchestration system for managing and scaling backend application servers.
  • Added support for custom metrics in a telemetry pipeline that captures performance statistics for interactions between all software components of the Aladdin ecosystem.
  • Designed and developed new infrastructure and API's that allow other developers at the firm to transition their applications from a bare-metal to cloud-native architecture that supports orchestration via Kubernetes.
  • Implemented a new engine that intelligently monitors application servers to establish normal performance characteristics and sends alerts when unusual deviation is detected.
  • Interacted with prominent cloud providers to determine possible migration strategies for Aladdin applications to each one.
  • Assessed APM (application performance monitoring) solutions of various vendors to determine which one could be best retrofitted into Aladdin applications.

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
New York
07.2018 - 02.2019
  • Developed Angular front-end for business users to see documentation regarding derivatives for client portfolios.
  • Automated a variety of internal processes for the team using Python scripts.
  • Delivered full-stack enhancements to a client-facing service tool, improving its presentation layer on the front-end and rewriting legacy portions of the backend to use a standardized messaging backplate.
  • Created a suite of Python scripts that provide diagnostics for senior management into how well the service tool is performing from a reliability, stability, and performance perspective.

Summer Analyst

BLACKROCK, INC.
New York
05.2017 - 08.2017
  • Built a new product to assist the Aladdin Quality Engineering team in testing and validating public-facing APIs used by clients to write their own applications.
  • Gave frequent product demos to senior management and other stakeholders and incorporated their feedback.

Teachers Assistant

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York
05.2016 - 08.2017
  • Helped students with understanding concepts in the college's introductory computer science courses.
  • Gave tutorials to students to reinforce topics covered in lecture.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Art History

New York University
New York, NY
12.2017

Skills

  • Terraform
  • Java, Python, Javascript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Azure, AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Jira
  • Agile methodologies
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Technical documentation
  • Client relationship management
  • Collaboration and communication
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Cloud infrastructure management

Timeline

Platform Engineer

FLAT SPELL TECHNOLOGIES
02.2023 - 12.2024

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
02.2019 - 02.2020

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
07.2018 - 02.2019

Software Engineer

BLACKROCK, INC.
05.2017 - 02.2023

Summer Analyst

BLACKROCK, INC.
05.2017 - 08.2017

Teachers Assistant

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
05.2016 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Art History

New York University

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