Todd Schiller, Developer in New York, NY, United States
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Todd Schiller

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Software Developer

Location
New York, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 23, 2019

Todd is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience working on business and analytics applications. He's built decision systems for some of the world's largest hedge funds and consumer companies. Along with a Ph.D. degree in computer science, Todd has published peer-reviewed research on machine learning and automated program analysis.

Portfolio

MOKA Analytics
GNU, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SQL, Informatica, D3.js, Redux, React, Django, Python
Bridgewater Associates
Microsoft Excel, Pandas, NumPy, Angular, Scala, Python
FinLingua, Inc.
SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Telerik, C#

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Chrome, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is modeling end-to-end production network profitability and interactive simulations of new factories.

Work Experience

Head of Engineering

2016 - PRESENT
MOKA Analytics
  • Brought the product from concept to market with customers including Fortune's Global 500 companies.
  • Designed analytics systems using optimization, statistical modeling, NLP, and expert systems.
  • Spearheaded a requirements analysis with a client business and IT stakeholders during sales and deployment.
  • Managed a team of full-time software engineers; along with supervising contractors for QA, UI design, and ETL development.
Technologies: GNU, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SQL, Informatica, D3.js, Redux, React, Django, Python

Researcher | Knowledge Engineer

2015 - 2015
Bridgewater Associates
  • Worked as a member of the Systemized Intelligence Lab led by Dave Ferrucci (former IBM Watson team lead).
  • Liaised between research and development; wrote the requirements for the knowledge engineering systems.
  • Designed and implemented knowledge-engineering tools with a focus on metareasoning.
  • Built statistical models for people analytics.
Technologies: Microsoft Excel, Pandas, NumPy, Angular, Scala, Python

Founding Consultant

2013 - 2014
FinLingua, Inc.
  • Led the design, development, and integration of a derivatives order management system (OMS) for an investment manager with $130 billion AUM.
  • Co-organized a workshop on domain-specific languages for financial systems (DSLFIN) at an international ACM/IEEE conference.
Technologies: SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Telerik, C#

Business Analyst | Software Engineer

2010 - 2012
Numerix, LLC
  • Led the design and development of domain-specific modeling infrastructure for a new analytics product; worked with product management to establish business and technical requirements for the product.
  • Collaborated with senior developers and CEO to design the specification for a new structuring technology for the company’s flagship product.
  • Held internal and external presentations for new technologies; presented technologies in sales demos.
Technologies: Java, C++, C#

Strategic Planning SaaS

https://www.moka.nyc/
I developed strategic planning software for consumer package companies (CPG). It models the value chain of the business from marketing, to finance, to supply chain, to production.

I took from concept to market, including a client from the Global 500.

Derivatives Order Management System (OMS)

This project involved a derivatives order management system (OMS) for an investment manager with $130 billion AUM. It allowed traders to quickly and accurately capture the details of their trades and monitor their portfolio.

Languages

Python, SQL, JavaScript, C#, Java, TypeScript, Scala, C++, RDF

Frameworks

Django, Redux, Chrome, Angular, Django REST Framework, Apache Jena

Tools

IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Microsoft Excel, Gensim, Weka

Paradigms

Business Intelligence (BI), Data Science, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

Azure, MacOS, Telerik

Libraries/APIs

React, NetworkX, NumPy, Pandas, jQuery, D3.js, Highcharts, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn

Storage

Azure SQL, PostgreSQL

Other

Linear Optimization, Informatica, GNU, Chrome Extensions

2009 - 2014

Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science

University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA

2008 - 2009

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO, USA

2005 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO, USA

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