David Apolinar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Software Developer
David is a principal cloud architect with over ten years of experience helping customers design and architect cloud solutions on Azure. He also has acquired ten years of experience in the financial services industry. David has also worked in the automotive industry, focusing on assisting customers in enabling autonomous self-driving vehicles by leveraging Microsoft Azure.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Azure PaaS, Azure IaaS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Terraform
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on is minimizing the amount of time financial quants spent developing their customer portfolio investments using Azure.
Work Experience
Principal Architect
Microsoft
- Enabled a large insurance customer to save significant capital expenditures of approximately $500,000 by architecting and designing a cloud-native high-performance computing (HPC) grid computing environment.
- Set up quantitative financial analysts to leverage native Azure Python SDKs, using Azure Batch to reduce their financial simulation training from five days to three hours.
- Equipped a large financial service banking customer to migrate from an on-premises custom-built Docker environment to an AKS multi-cluster environment.
Experience
Spring Cloud Azure Reference Architecture
https://github.com/Azure/azure-spring-apps-reference-architectureMicrosoft HPC Cost Optimization for Insurance
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/financial-services/2017/03/06/metlife-improves-actuarial-calculation-capability-while-generating-savings/Skills
Libraries/APIs
Microsoft HPC, PyTorch
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Network Security Groups, VMware vSphere, Terraform, Azure App Service
Platforms
Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Functions, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW)
Storage
Azure Blobs, Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL Databases, Database Security, Azure Table Storage
Other
Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud, Architecture, Strategy, Machine Learning, Statistics, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Business, Finance, Algorithms, Sorting Algorithms, Data Structures, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Big Data, Application Security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Architecture
Languages
Python 3, Python, Java
Paradigms
Azure DevOps
Education
Master's Degree in Data Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ, USA
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration and Finance
Baruch College - New York City, NY, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago, IL, USA
Certifications
Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
The Linux Foundation
Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
Implementing an Azure Data Solution
Microsoft
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