Founder of a Startup
Greater New York City Area
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- Founder at [Startup]
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- Consultant at (Investment Bank)
- Software Engineer/Consultant at Lab49
- Founder and Software Engineer at Gatsb.com
- Consultant at (Top Software Company)
- Software Engineer - Consultant at (Top Investment Bank)
- Sr. Software Engineer at Something Digital
- Education
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- New York University
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Andre de Cavaignac’s Summary
Business oriented senior software engineer currently focused on Agile development, grid and HPC computing, financial applications, real-time applications and framework design and development.
Non-technical interests include organization (task management and user productivity tools), economics (especially macroeconomics), politics, psychology and social psychology, business process and entrepreneurship.
Looking to expand into more of a business role and to participate in a startup.
Andre de Cavaignac’s Specialties:
Product Development, Technical Project Management, Agile/Scrum Development, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, .NET 3.5, C#, Software Architecture, Windows Development, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, MSSQL, Windows Compute Cluster Server (Windows HPC), Google Web Toolkit, Java
Andre de Cavaignac’s Experience
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Founder
[Startup]
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Coming soon!
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Consultant
(Investment Bank)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RY; Investment Banking industry)
July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)
Instrumental in building a trading application for Foreign Exchange and other capital market instruments in Flex, Java, Spring and LiveCycle Data Services.
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Software Engineer/Consultant
Lab49
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Worked at several high profile companies as a consultant for financial services software development.
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Founder and Software Engineer
Gatsb.com
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Founded, built and promoted Gatsb.com, a social networking site that uses text and picture messaging to allow users to communicate and post location aware pictures and messages over their mobile phones.
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Consultant
(Top Software Company)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — July 2008 (1 year)
Building a financial services runtime for executing financial models against compute clusters/grids.
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Software Engineer - Consultant
(Top Investment Bank)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year)
Building trading and business systems for Fixed Income Securities division on behalf of Lab49 (consultancy)
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Sr. Software Engineer
Something Digital
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 3 months)
Software engineer and headed a five person developer team building custom software platforms for clients. (Started as intern).
• Architected and implemented a large scale, high-performance online marketing survey platform, which acts as a ‘framework’ on which to build ‘survey applications’. Designed to be a pluggable and extensible framework. Maintains a fully exposed API for custom business logic.
• Assisted in architecture of an application used on a global scale for tracking work order tickets, upgrades, change requests and status of telecommunications lines used in stock trading and financial services. This application replaced a legacy VB6 application.
Andre de Cavaignac’s Education
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New York University
BA , Economics , 2007 — 2012 (expected)
Attending part time, with an expected major in either Economics or International Relations.
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Andre de Cavaignac’s Interests:
New technology, business, .NET, IT, business development, management, entrepreneurship, crew
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