Hugh Ediet, Developer in Australia

Hugh Ediet

Full-stack Developer

Location
Australia
Toptal Member Since
May 6, 2019

In a nutshell, Hugh delivers positive outcomes. When he encounters a problem, he identifies the essential dynamics, hypothesizes a remedy, monitors, and iterates. When the issues extend, impact, or involve others, he acts quickly, focusing on communication and the roadmap. Hugh has over 25 years of experience developing applications and solving problems across a breadth of technical and business domains.

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Portfolio

Calm.com (via Toptal)
Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker...
Columbia University
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google Compute Engine (GCE)...
Lehman Brothers
Perl, MATLAB, R, C, C++

Experience

Full-stack - 10 yearsJavaScript - 8 yearsGo - 5 yearsKernel Programming - 5 yearsPython 3 - 5 yearsVue 2 - 3 yearsRust - 3 yearsgRPC - 1 year

Location

Australia

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Linux

The most amazing...

...project I've developed was a novel algorithm to reverse-engineer cellular networks 31,000x faster.

Work Experience

2019 - 2020

Back-end Go Developer

Calm.com (via Toptal)
  • Separated subscriptions from the monolithic application into Go microservice with a CQRS/Event Sourcing architecture.
  • Designed subscription data models for production and pipeline to the analytics team.
  • Developed a back-end for promotional pricing with A/B testing.
  • Improved test resolution/ease-of-use, contributed new patterns for more agile and less brittle integration tests, reduced docker image sizes 10x, feature enhancements to in-house DevOps tools.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, LaunchDarkly, Redis, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Node.js, JavaScript, Go
2009 - 2019

Director of IT (2014-2019) | Lead Engineer (2009-2014)

Columbia University
  • Developed a comprehensive services management and billing system with multiple web front ends that securely made available 30+ million records per year, resulting in a frictionless UX (React, SSR, server streaming, Vue, gRPC, Go and PostgreSQL).
  • Productized research group's method of identifying protein-protein interactions with an improved algorithm (1,000x faster). This speed-up enabled them to stay within budget and explore 100x more genomes (built with Rust, Python, C/C++, SQLite and ASM).
  • Designed and coordinated the implementation of the architecture for secure sharing and analysis of patient data. Was responsible for on-going auditing and oversight of security compliance (HIPAA and internal controls).
  • Cleaned and restructured a 40 TB genomic dataset for a quality and high-performance distributed analysis in the cloud (AWS) along with a custom storage engine.
  • Created an original dual-space algorithm (41 years reduced to 18 hours) to identify complex genetic disorders (built with ASM, GPU).
  • Built a container system to sandbox users and fair-share limited resources (built with C).
  • Developed a compute swarm that robustly handles failures, dynamically redistributes computation, and scales efficiently—scaled to 6,000 instances (built with C, Go, and Python).
  • Wrote a Linux overlay file system with real-time adaptive, user-based QoS limits for a 5,000 node compute cluster to prevent runaway usage. A user can only slow themselves down (built with C).
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Kernel Programming, ASM, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), MATLAB, R, Protobuf, gRPC, Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript
2003 - 2004

Senior Vice President

Lehman Brothers
  • Led profitable quantitative equity trading team within a mixed disciplinary group.
  • Removed an obstacle to a strategy testing framework by adding time-series extensions to MySQL and improved strategy development time three times.
  • Wrote an Excel extension to support the real-time bidirectional communication and live-feed of market data.
Technologies: Perl, MATLAB, R, C, C++
2000 - 2002

Vice President

Morgan Stanley
  • Proposed, modeled, and implemented improvements to VWAP execution strategy yielding a 3% price improvement without notably increasing volatility.
  • Developed (full-stack) a monitoring system to track all of the firm’s agency equity trades flowing through our execution strategies internationally.
  • Built a robust C++ live trading engine with an embedded JavaScript VM for Nimble and safe incremental execution strategy development.
  • Increased customer utilization by 10% by tuning and extending the limit-order model.
  • Increased returns by 5% on proprietary reversion strategy by better modeling and anticipating risk.
Technologies: JavaScript, Python, Perl, MOSEK, SAS, MATLAB, R, C++
1999 - 2000

Project Manager

Investment Technology Group
  • Refactored and restructured a broken portfolio optimization product to reinvigorate sales.
  • Increased the optimizer value by creating and implementing a mathematical model for tax handling of wash-sales.
  • Heavy interaction with clients to provide unique extensions for their needs.
Technologies: CPLEX, MATLAB, C, C++
1997 - 1999

Founder

Pencom New Technologies
  • Designed and implemented back-end systems and RPC to the front end to manage distributed telephony switching equipment for a client.
  • Implemented a two-tier data entry system for trading floor booking for a client.
  • Grew the consulting startup to 35 full-time employees.
Technologies: C, C++
1996 - 1997

Senior Software Analyst

Aspen Technology, Inc.
  • Sped-up new process modeling by developing chemical engineering specific scripting language.
  • Reduced time spent on DevOps by 25% teamwide by creating a multiplatform, incremental build system.
  • Built a CORBA RPC back-end for chemical process modeling and optimization software.
Technologies: CORBA, Python, Perl, C
1994 - 1996

Lead Unix Administrator

University of Denver
  • Developed a frictionless portal to bill 10,000 students for printing services.
  • Built a DNS front-end/database system for managing endpoint networking for the whole campus.
  • Managed systems administration team for all central Unix systems.
Technologies: Print, Printer Drivers, RPC, Perl, C, Unix

Experience

JavaScript Sandbox

I've embedded a JavaScript VM in an equity trading engine to provide a robust and safe live trading environment for the development of a rapid strategy and the refinement of an agile iterative process.

I/O Throttling

I blocked rogue computations from a crippling storage array by writing a Linux overlay file system to adaptively rate-limit I/O across a computing cluster both in aggregate and on a per-user basis.

MySQL Timeseries Extension

I extended a MySQL engine to support time series as a fundamental data type. It was used by Lehman Brothers for equity trading research.

Skills

Languages

Go, C++, C, Python 3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Rust, R, Assembly Language, Python, Perl, SAS, Objective-C, Swift

Frameworks

gRPC, Bulma, Nuxt.js, ASM, Angular, Boost

Libraries/APIs

Protobuf, Vue 2, Python Asyncio, Buefy, Node.js, Vuex, Pthreads

Paradigms

Concurrent Programming, Microservices, Agile, Socket Programming, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Microservices Architecture, Test-driven Development (TDD)

Platforms

Android, Linux, Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kernel Programming, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, CockroachDB, Berkeley DB, Datadog

Other

Mobile App Development, Freelancing, Full-stack, Protocol Design, LDAP, GPU Computing, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), RPC, Printer Drivers, Print, CORBA

Tools

Docker Compose, Git, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, MATLAB, CPLEX, MOSEK, LaunchDarkly, Kafka Streams