Jun 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Nowy Jork, NY · On-site

• Quant developer. Lead on execution platform (algorithm container / strategy engine) from concept to prod trading / stability and made steady improvements to sim/live reconciliation. Competing favorably with broker algos. Significant contributor to microstructure feature calculator. C++ standards primary representative (INCITS). Fixed build tools and made improvements throughout the tech stack to reduce build times and fix "mechanical" issues early.

Jun 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Nowy Jork i okolice · On-site

• Marketdata platform developer supporting various different functions (trading, risk, ops, monitoring) spanning multiple asset classes (US+EU equities, options, futures, swaps, ...) for various business units within the hedge fund and BD. Built + maintained a custom timeseries database for near-real-time prices and intraday queries / dashboards.

Sep 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Redmond, WA

• Building language service features to reduce the keystrokes and cognitive load of JavaScript and TypeScript developers the world over. Features I have built, including code-actions, snippets, code-formatting improvements, accessibility features, and editor performance improvements, have landed in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and other editors using our language server.
• Open-source work available at https://github.com/aozgaa

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Redmond, WA

• Proposed, implemented, and merged multiple language features in the core TypeScript language (url: http://www.typescriptlang.org/), including merged class-interface declarations, the “abstract” keyword, and comment completion features. Participated in weekly design meetings and synthesized feedback from the open source community to devise cohesive and elegant solutions. Submitted several bug-fixes throughout the system.

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Redmond, WA

• Integrated various server diagnostic-data systems under a new umbrella front-end. Rotated between project manager, developer, and tester as part of the project.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led discussion sections, wrote problem sets and exams, and graded for the following courses:
• EECS 376: Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Fall 2014 and Winter 2015)
• EECS 482: Operation Systems (Fall 2015)

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos

Oct 2012 – May 2013 · 7 mos

Sep 2012 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Studied Computer Science Engineering and Honors Mathematics.