Elliott Bäck

Current

Associate at Goldman Sachs

Past

Associate at Morgan Stanley
CS 211 Teaching Assistant at Cornell University
SDE Intern at Amazon.com

Production Assistant at Cornell University
Applications Programmer at Cornell University
Database Programmer at Arizona State University

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Education

Cornell University
Tempe Preparatory Academy

Connections

198 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Blog

Elliott Bäck’s Summary

Interested in finance, markets, exotic derivatives, and globalization.

Elliott Bäck’s Specialties:

Web development, web services, Oracle, mySQL and other databases, modelling, systems, client-server software, algorithms, a slew of programming languages, including C, C#, C++, Java, ML, PHP, SQL, XML, and Perl. Also, foreign languages; English, Chinese, and Spanish.

Elliott Bäck’s Experience

Associate

Goldman Sachs

(Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Equity OTC Derivatives Sales Technology
Associate

Morgan Stanley

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

August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Designed, implemented, and maintained high-volume alert management and metrics reporting systems enterprise-wide. Improved performance and stability. Trained in IT, proprietary technologies, and finance.
CS 211 Teaching Assistant

Cornell University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 2 months)

Instruct object oriented programming (OOP) and Java language fundamentals in section class and office hours. Proctor, write, and grade examinations and assignments. Utilize automated solutions to strictly enforce academic integrity. Actively involved with course administration.
SDE Intern

Amazon.com

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

Scoped, designed, implemented, and deployed a large metrics project. Modeled high-volume logical and physical Oracle databases. Delivered an ETL demon, the database instance, and a fault-tolerant metrics web service. Created cost-savings reports and perl scripts that demonstrate software efficiency.
Production Assistant

Cornell University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Graphic Design industry)

May 2004 — September 2004 (5 months)

Completed more than a dozen Faculty Innovation Grants projects. Used W3C valid CSS, (X)HTML, and XML with database-driven interfaces in PHP, mySQL, and Zope. Added Flash for spice and flair.
Applications Programmer

Cornell University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — September 2004 (5 months)

Wrote PHP, SQL queries, and regular expressions to synchronize databases, perform intelligent searches, and customize a 30,000 line open-source project. Created a custom web-proxy to the Library gateway.
Database Programmer

Arizona State University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)

Implemented a modern relational database upgrade by migrating old 16-bit dBase code to the latest version, normalizing database tables, writing queries, and creating an extensive GUI. Optimized run and start times.

Elliott Bäck’s Education

Cornell University

BS , Computer Science, English , 2002 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

Cornell Engineering AI Hearing Board, Cornell Daily Sun, The Research Paper, Seven Spirits Kung Fu, ACSU, Cornell University Chorus, Independent Research
Tempe Preparatory Academy

HS Diploma , 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Arizona Regional Science Bowl, AATM Math Competition, Cantamus