A skilled Technical Leader and Software Architect with a passion for building simple and elegant systems; who thrives at the cusp of technology and finance. I've worked at some of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world building mission critical front office applications. An effective collaborator with a strong understanding of the business and a keen eye for the "big picture".

Executive Director, Global Trading Research @ From May 2015 to Present (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineering Leader & Software Architect @ Led Software Engineering at DCI Built a scalable microservices platform enabling rapid development of front office systems. Established project management processes and improved priority review mechanisms providing better visibility to group heads and business owners; enabling a better feedback loop between business and engineering. ✯ Highly scalable real time Pre-Trade Compliance system ✯ Real time multi-asset market data system providing live quotes to internal systems ✯ Trade Execution and FIX infrastructure ✯ Built technology for the launch of a new Quantitative Market Neutral Equity platform ✯ Built out the next gen HTML5 based UX platform for Front Office Systems ✯ Established processes to reduce operational overhead for engineering From December 2012 to April 2015 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Front Office Development - Credit & Derivatives ✯ Led development of the Monis system and its integration with internal Credit systems ✯ Market Data Capture System built on top of Reuters Data Scope Select ✯ Pricing & Risk modeling for various asset classes ✯ Helped improve development environment promoting usage of Maven and Git From November 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer Team Lead @ Led development of Front Office Valuation Systems. AQR's proprietary real time P&L System for hedge funds, mutual funds and managed accounts across all major asset classes (Equities, Futures, Swaps, FX, Forwards, CDS) ✯ Large Scale distributed system computing real time P&L and positions. ✯ Web based Live P&L with optimized view for Blackberry access ✯ Reuters real time pricing for major asset classes across global exchanges ✯ Real time and End of Day Front Office Position keeping system ✯ Generic Object Library for cross language client-server communication - Java/C# ✯ Established release schedules and priority review with business stake holders ✯ Worked with firm partners on product road map and feature prioritization From January 2009 to July 2011 (2 years 7 months) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer Analyst @ Front Office Systems Development ✯ Developed Futures Sec Master ✯ Built cross language (Java/C++) communication infrastructure using ZeroC ICE ✯ Development of the Front Office P&L System. From January 2007 to January 2009 (2 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ Portfolio Management Tools (PMT) - Front Office Development From July 2006 to January 2007 (7 months) Greater New York City Area

MS, Information Networking @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2004 to 2006 BE, Compute Science & Engineering @ Visvesvaraya Technological University From 1999 to 2003 Gesly George is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Java, Software Development, Trading Systems, Management, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Engineering, Hedge Funds, SOA, Software Project..., Cross-functional Team..., JavaScript, Quantitative Finance, Big Data, Agile Methodologies, Data Grid, C#, Git, C++, Perl, Python, Maven, NoSQL, Infinispan, Microservices