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Greg Olmstead, Software Developer in New York, NY, United States
Greg Olmstead

Software Developer in New York, NY, United States

Member since January 3, 2017
Greg is a technical lead in the financial services industry, with four years of leadership experience. He's a full-stack developer with more than eleven years in projects with high visibility and performance, such as a nuclear industry plant design and fixed-income trading. Greg is also a multiple hackathon winner leveraging ML/NLP with one patent pending.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

New York, NY, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

PyCharm, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Visual Studio

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on was a machine learning/NLP powered relationship-strength mapping engine based on the content of an organization's email.

Employment

  • Technical Lead

    2012 - PRESENT
    Royal Bank of Canada
    • Led a team of 7 in the development of main institutional credit sales and trading applications as well as debt capital markets management application, used globally.
    • Created a credit and rates trading application in C#/WPF, now used by all RBC traders across the globe and responsible for millions of dollars per day in institutional trading.
    • Built a machine learning/natural language processing powered relationship strength mapping engine which computed best-paths between individuals by analyzing their online communications (email, instant-messaging, and more).
    • Developed an in-house WPF based application framework which managed the creation of business controls and data retrieval/transformation to enable developers to rapidly create highly configurable applications.
    • Worked as the leader of an in-house innovation team, winning multiple hackathons and producing three applications currently in pipeline to become production apps.
    • Managed the full life cycle on projects from concept to production.
    Technologies: Node.js, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), C#, .NET, Git, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns

  • Principal Developer

    2007 - PRESENT
    SparkIT Solutions
    • Created a Raspberry Pi based long term data logging device for UV Filters leveraging Modbus over Serial communications and built as an embedded device.
    • Built an appliance for ingesting, retrieving, transforming, consolidating, and transmitting log, audit, and other types of data from multiple systems to send up to RSA Envision platform.
    • Performed reverse-engineering on Windows-based malware using IDAPro, OllyDbg, Reflector, and Cuckoo.
    • Designed and built multiple small business turn-key solutions—including everything from domain, accounting, file, mail, and client management servers to network to user devices and full integration.
    • Participated in software security audits.
    • Organized and managed community engineering projects.
    • Created a web application that uses SpreadsheetGear and a complex Excel-based model (Jim Leach's Buy to Rent model) to perform analysis on data to determine whether to buy a piece of property as a rental.
    Technologies: Windows PowerShell, Bash, Python, Perl, HTML5, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), C#, Git

  • Software Developer

    2010 - 2012
    Citigroup
    • Worked as the principal developer on a credit risk aggregation app.
    • Worked as the contact point between technical teams and the business users (traders).
    • Created a WPF based framework for producing live-data, real-time reports based off Clojure scripts written on the server side.
    • Developed a C# based message bus which allowed remote commands to be sent to applications using C# code.
    • Developed the architecture for a unified service platform underpinning multiple applications within the credit space.
    Technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), C#, .NET, Git, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns

Experience

  • Decision Models

    A web application developed in partnership with Jim Leach to calculate and display information about whether the purchase of a particular property as a rental property would be a good investment, and details about the investment returns.

Skills

  • Languages

    C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML5, Bash, Perl, Java, PHP

  • Frameworks

    Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), .NET, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, Angular, Windows PowerShell

  • Tools

    Git, Syncfusion, Visual Studio 2015, Terraform, Visual Studio, PyCharm

  • Libraries/APIs

    Infragistics, jQuery, Node.js

  • Paradigms

    Agile Product Management, Agile Software Development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns

  • Platforms

    Linux, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

  • Storage

    Microsoft SQL Server

  • Other

    Telerik Web Controls

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Computing & Information Technology
    2008 - 2015
    McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Technologist Degree in Network Engineering & Security Analysis
    2004 - 2007
    Mohawk College - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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