Head of Application Software @ Quant Hedge Fund & Fin-Tech Incubator
Founder and CEO (www.koganapps.com) @ KoganApps, LLC
Quantitative Analyst & Software Engineer @ Buy-side Financial Research Boutique
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Chief Technical Consultant @ -Conduct software engineering/technical consulting work for several clients, primarily specializing in data visualization, data analytics, reporting systems, web/desktop app prototyping and business intelligence solutions for financial technology firms and generalist development for strategic digital studios
-Regularly interface with top-level management at client companies to advise on business requirements and offer trainings
-Manage a
Chief Technical Consultant @ -Conduct software engineering/technical consulting work for several clients, primarily specializing in data visualization, data analytics, reporting systems, web/desktop app prototyping and business intelligence solutions for financial technology firms and generalist development for strategic digital studios
-Regularly interface with top-level management at client companies to advise on business requirements and offer trainings
-Manage a small team of developers which aids in delivering quality services to select clients From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Quantitative Analyst & Software Engineer @ -Lead full-stack development of core data analysis and visualization products, working directly with head quant analyst, director of technology and Founder/CEO; products have contributed to over $2M in sales growth
-Performed revamp/upgrade of charting package, report-generating systems and associated libraries
-Developed a scalable site-wide testing framework using Selenium IDE which executes multiple tests in parallel From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaBusiness Intelligence Contractor/Quant Analyst Intern @ From November 2014 to March 2015 (5 months) Research Software Engineer (Storm Outage Prediction senior project) @ -Conducted in-depth research regarding ecological, weather-related and device-related factors which lead to outages
-Developed machine learning model to back-test historical outage data and find combinations of factors yielding outages
-Presented proposed framework and model results to partners and other senior members of PPL From January 2014 to December 2014 (1 year) Allentown, Pennsylvania AreaPrivate Equity Summer Analyst @ From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Software Developer @ -Completed full iterations of Compensation Database, which has been featured on Bloomberg and Business Insider
-Had several proof-of-concept rounds for new products with CEO and VP of company From January 2013 to September 2013 (9 months) Greater New York City AreaResearcher/Software Developer @ -Developed formal model of x87 floating-point subset of Intel x86 Architecture
-Used Pintool and GDB scripts to test syntax and semantics of model From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) Software Developer @ From 2009 to 2013 (4 years) Integrative Neuroscience Research Assistant @ From 2008 to 2010 (2 years)
BS In Computer Science and Business, Finance, General @ Lehigh University From 2011 to 2014 Mark Kogan is skilled in: Software Development, Java, Databases, JavaScript, SQL, Testing, Analysis, C++, Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Architectures, Python, C, Algorithms