Scala Software Engineer London

Skills

• Active Directory
• Akka
• AnzoGraph
• Apache Jena
• Arduino
• Bash
• C
• C++
• Camel
• Cats
• cats-effect
• CGI
• ClearCase
• CLion
• Coherence
• Consul
• CSS
• DHTML
• Docker
• DOM
• Eclipse
• EJBs
• Emacs
• ESP32
• ETL
• FPGA
• Fuseki
• Git
• GitHub Actions
• Github Copilot
• Gradle
• GraphDB
• Helm
• Hibernate
• HSQLDB
• HTML
• HTTP
• Ikasan EIP
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Java
• Java 8 Streams
• javascript
• JAXB
• JDBC
• Jenkins
• JSON
• JSP
• kotlin
• Kubernetes
• LLMs
• low-latency
• Make
• Material UI
• Maven
• Mesosphere
• Metaphactory
• MongoDB
• MS-Access
• multi-threading
• MySQL
• Neo4J
• NIO
• Nomad
• Objective-C
• Ontology
• OpenLDAP
• Oracle
• OWL
• Perl
• Play
• Postgres
• PowerShell
• PyCharm
• Python
• RDF
• RDF4J
• rdf4s
• rdflib
• RDFox
• React
• Redis
• REST APIs
• Rust
• S3
• SBT
• Scala
• Scala.js
• SDL2
• Servlets
• SPARQL
• Spring
• SQL
• Stardog
• Subversion
• Swift
• Swing
• SWT
• Sybase
• Tapir
• Taxonomy
• TeamCity
• TypeScript
• UML
• Verilog
• VHDL
• vim
• VS Code
• WebSockets
• Xcode
• XML
• XSLT
• ZIO

Experience

Apr 2025 – Present

Scala Software Engineer at Bank of America

– Development on a Cesium Reference Data Platform hosted on a Databricks RDF store.
– Built bespoke in-house ETL tools for reference data ingestion and streaming using Scala, ZIO, and related extensions.
– Ported and migrated existing JVM-based services from Java and Scala 2.10+ to Scala 3.
– Provided coaching and guidance to team members on Agile practices, Scala, and RDF technologies.

Sepе 2023 - Oct 2024

Programmer at Citi

– Software engineering on an Equity Options Pricing and Vols Team, primarily using Kotlin.
– Ported a legacy Spring Boot Java microservices stack to a new strategic platform and enhanced existing RESTful APIs with Kotlin; used Bash and Python for orchestration and automation.
– Designed and implemented real-time EMA Java API connectivity clients for Reuters/Refinitiv/Elektron/LSE.
– Developed components to manage, source, configure, and persist option chains from the market, with full ownership from inception through staged production delivery across APAC, EMEA, and NAM regions.

Jul 2022 – Sep 2023

Java Software Engineer at UBS

– Front-office development of a trade booking, execution, and order management application (Execution Hub), a streaming platform implemented with Java, Spring Boot, Consul, and Docker.
– Worked on market-data vendor connectivity, reference data streams, and enhanced Order Stream Publisher data flows to support ETDs while maintaining existing EQ flows. – – Designed and implemented FIX protocol initiators and acceptors for multiple “drops” feeding order stream data to global middle and back-office systems, as well as compliance and regulatory reporting.
– Collaborated across multiple pods in a global agile environment, with strong focus on CI/CD, bi-weekly sprint iterations, and team ceremonies.

Jul 2022 – Oct 2022

Scala Software Engineer at OWO Energy

– Contributed to the Warm Home Discount and Government-backed Energy Bills Support Schemes under tight deadlines.
– Worked within a small, agile, highly skilled team to design and deliver a greenfield system from inception to successful, timely go-live, meeting strict government-mandated timelines.
– Developed a workflow engine with multiple dependencies and triggers to coordinate tasks across the system.
– Built bespoke adaptors and plug-ins for the accounting and billing systems, interfacing via messaging and RESTful APIs.
– Technologies used: Scala 2.13, cats with cats-effect, http4s, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, k9s, Google Cloud (GCP).
– Implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, CircleCI, and Flux for DEV, INT, and PROD deployments to Google Cloud Kubernetes clusters (GKE), including first-line post-go-live support.

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022

Scala Software Engineer at HMRC Digital

– Software engineering using Scala 2.12, Akka, Play, and MongoDB on a UK Government full-stack Digital Platform built entirely in Scala.
– Developed and maintained features supporting end-to-end user workflows for entering, managing, and submitting Customs Goods Declarations, facilitating goods movement for UK and European hauliers post-Brexit.

Nov 2020 – Jul 2022

Head of EKG Platform Services at agnos.ai

– Worked as a system architect and technical team member on a full-stack EKG platform using Python, Kotlin, Scala, React, TypeScript, and Bash.
– Designed and delivered a new EKG Platform supporting multiple Legal Entity Management use cases and facilitating adoption of EKG and cloud-based technologies.
– Responsible for DevOps and SPARQL-based DataOps ETL pipelines, supporting applications in-house and in production on client Openshift clusters and cloud CI/CD on GKE.
– Contributed to open-source projects and reusable software components for the EKG Foundation (EKGF.org) and the broader community.
– Technologies used: Software Architecture, Ontology Design, Linked Data, Semantic Technology, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, Protégé, Kotlin, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Openshift, Python, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash.

Sept 2015 – Nov 2020

Sr. Principal Architect, Knowledge Graph Platform at BNY Mellon

– Served as core architect and eventually app owner for a Knowledge Graph (KG) platform team.
– Researched, implemented, and delivered one of the first Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) architectures in the financial industry using Scala and Akka, running in Docker containers.
– Collaborated with business architects, application owners, database architects, and technologists to define corporate data governance architecture using semantic technologies, engaging and managing senior stakeholders and third-party vendors.
– Led software architecture, ontology design, and development for the Knowledge Graph team; implemented fully containerized CI/CD pipelines leveraging in-house cloud infrastructure.
– Applied identity and property resolution strategies to unify disparate data sources under a single EKG platform, eliminating unstructured “data lakes” and enabling strategic initiatives such as Employee 360, KYC, and regulatory compliance.
– Technologies used: Software Architecture, Ontology Design, Linked Data, Big Data, Semantic Technology, SPARQL, SHACL, RDF, OWL, Protégé, Top Braid, ETL, Scala 2.12, Akka 2.5, Enterprise and Master Data Management (EDM/MDM), Docker, Nomad, Mesosphere, Bash.
– Led an offshore team of 6 developers to design and deliver an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for Alternatives and Funds Solutions.
– Acted as vendor liaison for selection of leading EDM solutions and provided architecture leadership and technical guidance.
– Coordinated with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a streamlined EDM solution replacing aspects of an in-house Managed Accounts Platform.
– Technologies used: Scrum, Development Management, Team Lead, Tech Lead, Scala 2.11, Akka, EDM, MDM, Misato, MarkIT, Eagle PACE.

Sept 2013 – Jan 2015

EAI Architect (Java & Spring), Middleware Team at Mizuho International

– Provided EAI systems architecture and development support for a bank-wide enterprise integration platform based on the open-source Ikasan framework.
– Delivered first-line front-office support for the Middleware Team’s integration platform.
– Built asynchronous messaging and web services with Spring on JBoss Application Server and JBoss Messaging, supporting interfaces for Bloomberg TOMS, Murex, Stratus, and GlobeOp as part of a two-year transformation program to restructure internal system flows.
– Developed and demonstrated a proof-of-concept framework for scalable, parallelized RESTful web services on top of MongoDB collections using Scala, Akka, Spray, and ReactiveMongo.

May 2013 – Nov 2013

Scala SW Dev & Architect, Semantic Web at Refinery 29 Inc.

– Software Architecture, design and development of an advanced state of the art Data Management
Platform with a fully generic Semantic Web Publishing System and a Semantic CMS

Education

1991 - 1996

Computer Technology and Informatics (with Distinction) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (FEI) at Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.Eng equiv.)