Hem's CV

Software Engineer with 9 years experience developing applications and services for companies including Bloomberg, YLD, The Times, Net-A-Porter and Sky. I have designed and developed financial applications, retail web applications, journalism sites, designed and written backend services, provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure, participated in working groups to champion developer tooling, accessibility, performance and testing methodologies within engineering departments.

Team lead with 2 years of experience managing engineering teams for YLD and Sky. Mentored engineers, tempered year long technical roadmaps, and established modern development practices within my teams.

Server-side: Languages (TypeScript/JavaScript), API development (Node.js, GraphQL, request-response, publish-subscribe, HTTP, gRPC), Cloud Computing (AWS, Kubernetes, serverless), Distributed Computing (queues, event streaming)
Client-side: JavaScript (React, React Hooks, Redux, TypeScript), CSS systems (atomic, BEM, JS templates, layout, animations), Client-side Applications (UI performance, SEO, UX, accessibility, workers)
Project Management: Business Analysis (requirement gathering, estimates, delivery roadmapping), Engineering (RFCs and governance, diagrams, runbooks and documentation, developer tooling, technical presentations), Line Management (Agile, recruitment and training, mentoring, reporting)
DevOps and Tooling: Containerisation (docker, Kubernetes), Configuration and Infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), Monitoring (NewRelic, DataDog, CloudWatch, Kibana), Scripting (CLIs, Bash, Python, codemods), Testing and Developer Experience (Jest, ESLint, Cypress, performance testing, contract testing)
Networking & Security: Delivery and Caching (CloudFront, Akamai, Redis), Networking (VPCs, routing & DNS, ingress/egress, gateways) Authentication and security (IAM, OAuth, JWT, certs), Secret management (Vault, SSM)
Data housing: Databases (SQL, Postgres, RDS, MongoDB, Redis), Data Ops (replication, backups, remote access, encryption)
Financial Technology: Bloomberg Terminal (Trading systems, PM, CCLS, AFMT), Data (table/grid, aggregations, financial formulas), Financial Markets (Fixed income, Equity)

Projects and Employment

Project Bloomberg Terminal - {PM}, an institutional trading software for managing high frequency real-time positions
RoleSenior Software Engineer
Date1 year 8 months (Sep '22 - May '24)
TechnologiesTypescript, React, Redux, Grid, Python, Docker, HTML, SQL

Individual contributor working in the AIM Blotter Infrastructure team, within a department of 50 engineers globally.
Contributed to CATS, a trading system front end used by many Bloomberg Terminal applications including {PM}, {EMSX} and {FXEM}, using bespoke technologies including:
- Datalayer, a data table/grid technology for performing aggregations and transformations on streaming data
- HSL, a language for evaluating expressions akin to excel functions
- SSA, a set of APIs to perform server side aggregations on datasets
Engaged with international clients in Hong Kong and business users in New York to understand business requirements.
Support responsibilities involving being on-call, triaging, diagnosing and resolving reported issues, and providing explanantions and support for wider business queries by organising and attending deep dives across multiple timezones.
Rewrote a table/grid pivoting pipeline, improving performance allowing 3x the amount of data to be pivoted and visualised
Developed new worksheet columns for {PM} including:
- CCLS i.e. custom classifications of securities. Involved writing an RFC for custom column titles, writing autocomplete and button UI elements, sourcing data from BAS services
- Issuer Weights. Calculated weighted averages and contribution to analytics, aggregated by a custom issuer for all asset types, i.e. Fixed Income, Equity, CCY.
Trained in Bloomberg Terminal usage including trading systems (PM, MAV), market research (SEC, FA), fixed income (SECF, CRVF, EQF, COMP, YAS), risk analysis (MARS, PORT), fixed income markets (corporate bonds, government bonds, bond pricing, yields, duration) and financial institutions (pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, investment banks)
Member of multiple working groups helping to organise talks, contribute towards coding initiatives such as new APIs and refactors as well as peer review

Project Uphold - digital wallet and crypto asset trading platform
RoleSenior Backend Engineer
Date5 months (Aug '21 - Dec '21)
TechnologiesJavascript, Node.js, Express, gRPC, Jest

Developed risk assessment APIs within Uphold's back-office team with features including:
- Fraud & anti-money laundering checks
- Identity verification
Collaborated with the Principal Architect to design an RFC process for the engineering department.

Project Cloudmargin - cloud based collateral management application
RoleTeam Lead
Date1 year (Jul '20 - Jul '21)
TechnologiesJavascript, Node.js, React, AWS, SQS, Terraform, Docker, Cypress

Managed a team of 6 engineers and QAs within CloudMargin, line-managed and mentored all teammates, and reported to VP of Engineering
Hosting high-level roadmap planning and low-level technical discussions, improved commitment vs delivery from 60% to 90%, and acted as advisor to other team leads in lieu of a principal engineer.
Created several solution architecture proposals and worked with engineers and QAs through to delivery
- Rewrite backend APIs and cloud infrastructure, allowing margin calls to scale effectively for an upcoming increase in clients
- UMR regulatory features
- SWIFT payment support
- Manual adjustments to daily margin calls
Created several initiatives, including an internal RFC Committee within CloudMargin, founded and lead the Developer Community, and contributed towards organising an internal hackathon.
Collaborated with the SRE team to create a self-service model for engineering teams to follow, including testing, first use, and integrating the process within external teams to my own.

Project Wireless - audio platform for Times Radio
RoleSenior Engineer
Date1 year (Jun '19 - Jul '20)
TechnologiesAPI Development, Node.js, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform MongoDB, BlazeMeter

Senior engineer in a department of 30, responsible for infrastructure, API development and out-of-hours support, for the Wireless Audio Platform
Developed GraphQL microservices, API authentication, contract testing and integration with upstream services and data stores
Lead an initiative to establish SLAs, and wrote automation and alerting tools for our scaling strategy to meet SLOs
Provisioned and migrated kubernetes, wrote infrastructure as code provisioning compute, capacity plans, networking, database, configuration, CDN, CI, monitoring alerting tools and jumpboxes
Created solution proposals addressing scaling and cost, security, operations, architecture, and wrote API and operational documentation including runbooks
Represented engineering in high-level roadmap planning meetings with non-technical stakeholders, and subsequently working with developers responsible for implementation

Project eLife Sciences - Non-profit science publishes for biomedical and life sciences
RoleFront-End Engineer
Date1 year (Jun '18 - Apr '19)
TechnologiesVue.js, AWS, Docker, Figma

Provided Agile coaching, mentoring of software engineers, and planning and technical direction for clients.
Contributed to Pubsweet, an open source framework for building state-of-the-art publishing platforms, attended several meetups with international contributors while representing eLife Sciences.
Developed onboarding pages, reviewing conversion metrics iteratively to form requirements which directly lead to increased subscriptions.

Project thetimes.co.uk - Subscription based british news website
RoleFull Stack Engineer
Date1 year 3 months (Apr '17 - Jun '18)
TechnologiesNode.js, GraphQL, serverless, AWS, React, react-native, Storybook

Lead a team developing public facing serverless API for user's saved articles for The Times using TypeScript
Delivered deeplinking across times.co.uk and native app.
Delivered and showcased UI components, public and private APIs, provisioned cloud infrastructure on AWS including API gateways, database migrations, backups and VPNs, environments for automated load testing, monitoring and logging dashboards.
Provided talks for London Node.js Meetup, organised by YLD.

Project theoutnet.com - Luxury fashion online retailer
RoleFront-End Engineer
Date1 year 6 months (Jun '15 - Nov '16)
TechnologiesJavascript, Semantic HTML, CSS, Storybook, Figma, Java, SQL

Developed product and listing pages for Outnet.com, as single-page apps, optimised for SEO
Created live style guide for Outnet.com, and created a framework for style guide development.
Managed delivery and development including integration across the wider organisation.
Contributed toward a CMS system for the Outnet.com homepage and campaign pages

RoleGraduate Developer, Associate Developer, Software Developer, Lead Engineer
Date4 years (Aug '11 - Jun '15)
TechnologiesJavascript (React, Ember), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), Java (Spring), Database (SQL, Cassandra, Mongo)

Redesigned the order tracking journey for customers to track their order, cancellations, upgrades and appointments from concept to production.
Online bill section of Sky, focusing on accessibility, developed web components for the shared style guide used by the department and I contributed towards development of the iOS and Android Sky MyAccount app
Developed Java based APIs used by various departments across Sky, using frameworks including Spring, Maven, JUnit, MySQL, SVN. Services provided used async communication using MQ, and synchronous communication using HTTP
Accepted into the Sky Software Engineering Academy for graduates, which provided offsite training and qualification routes, rotation across Sky departments, and mentorship.

Hem Brahmbhatt

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