Anthony Cole

Highly experienced, full stack software developer with a lot of experience in financial services

Senior Software Engineer

Informeta Technologies Inc., New York, NY Jan 2021 to Now

• Designed and developed a finance database product using C# and the .NET stack.
• Highly multithreaded, OO, async codebase required continuous profiling & optimizing throughout development
• Built and enhanced UI and web pages with React/Blazor and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Implemented data connectors for Bloomberg, FactSet, and other financial data feeds.
• Developed secure web/rest APIs for a distributed database server, utilizing Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Created reusable calculated fields and ratios to ensure high performance and consistency across the organization.
• Developed mapping and normalization functionalities to provide a consistent set of fields across various finance sectors, countries, and data types (actuals & estimates).
• Implemented full data lineage functionality to enable users to trace the resolution of any calculated field.
• Developed a central web portal and server using MVC and .NET Core for user login, configuration, and automatic background updates.
• Integrated the solution with a Continuous Integration (CI) build system on Microsoft's Azure platform.

FDC Corporation, Tokyo Japan & New York, NY July 2008 to Dec 2020

• Broad range of development experience over the years
• Working with a very large code, contributing to all levels of the product
• Development of financial software interfacing with Bloomberg APIs
• All based on C# stack with WPF excel addin front end, multi-threaded OO code base
• Significant experience working with financial data, particularly equity fundamentals & estimates
• System design, designing Apis for requesting data from remote servers, debugging, writing tests
• Reading data to and from SQL databases
• Retrieval and handling of exchange rates, security prices, security information
• System responsible for caching, adjusting, displaying data in for security analysis
• Consulting work for mid-size NY hedge fund working on system integration, working to generate reports with risk & analyst teams

Morgan Stanley, Tokyo Japan Nov 2006 to June 2008

• Development of large distributed multi-server system in Java with C# front end
• System responsible for allocating hundreds of thousands of fund managed trades everyday
• Medium size development team, ~20 personnel around the world

Bachelor of Science(Information Technology)