Andre de Cavaignac

Andre de Cavaignac

Sr. Software Engineer and Software Consultant

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Founder and Software Engineer at Gatsb.com (Self-employed)
  • Software Engineer/Consultant at Lab49
Past
  • Consultant at (Top Software Company)
  • Software Engineer - Consultant at (Top Investment Bank)
  • Sr. Software Engineer at Something Digital
Education
  • New York University
Connections
42 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Andre de Cavaignac’s Summary

Business oriented senior software engineer currently focused on Agile development, .NET, 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:

.NET 3.5, C#, Software Architecture, Windows Development, Agile/Scrum Development, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, SQL 2005, Windows Compute Cluster Server (Windows HPC), Business


Andre de Cavaignac’s Experience

  • Founder and Software Engineer

    Gatsb.com (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    April 2007Present (1 year 4 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.

  • Software Engineer/Consultant

    Lab49

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2006Present (2 years)

    Worked at several high profile companies as a consultant for financial services software development.

  • Consultant

    (Top Software Company)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    August 2007July 2008 (1 year)

    Building a financial services runtime for executing financial models against compute clusters/grids.

  • Software Engineer - Consultant

    (Top Investment Bank)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    September 2006August 2007 (1 year)

    Building trading and business systems for Fixed Income Securities division on behalf of Lab49 (consultancy)

  • Sr. Software Engineer

    Something Digital

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 2004August 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. (C#, ASP.NET, .NET 2.0, Remoting, Winforms, Windows Services, Web Services, AJAX, Multithreaded Environment, ADO.NET, MSSQL 2005, SQL Reporting Services, OLAP, data warehousing, Macromedia Flash)
    • 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. (C#, ASP.NET, .NET 2.0, AJAX, ADO.NET, MSSQL)


Andre de Cavaignac’s Education

  • New York University

    BA, Economics, 20072012 (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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