
Founder & CEO at Scalable Analytics
Vancouver, Canada Area

Founder & CEO at Scalable Analytics
Vancouver, Canada Area
I am currently the CEO of Scalable Analytics, a Vancouver-based technology start-up developing advanced computational tools for real-time financial analytics. The company is a spin-off from the UBC Computer Science department.
Previously I was consulting for local hedge funds, helping to implement automated trading systems. I am also the co-founder and senior consultant at Scottsdale Developments Inc, an independent web development and IT consulting firm. Over the past decade I have worked on various academic research projects involving topics such as data-mining, distributed systems, parallel algorithms, stochastic local search, geo-spatial analysis and user interface design.
high-frequency finance, automated and algorithmic trading, financial modeling, trading strategy development and backtesting, technical analysis, market microstructure analysis, transaction cost analysis, combinatorial optimization, statistical analysis, data-mining, distributed systems, parallel algorithms, web technologies, linux administration, networking, object-oriented software analysis/design/development, user interface design, business/requirements analysis
(Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Scalable Analytics is a high-tech startup founded by myself and 3 others as a result of my M.Sc. research at UBC. The company is in a very early stage of development, working on an innovative, scalable and interactive workflow platform for real-time analysis of high-frequency, market-wide, intra-day tick data. Since inception, I have been the driving force behind the company, planning and executing our go-to-market strategy and building investor relations.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — May 2008 (6 years 2 months)
(Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)
When this start-up was first established, I was one of two software developers working on the core technology platform, which is a real-time financial data-mining platform for streaming market data. My roles included developing highly parallel programs using MPI, a multi-threaded distributed Java application with advanced GUI features, and numerous data analysis tasks involving quantitative studies and data manipulation.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 2006 — February 2007 (6 months)
Researching computational approaches to real-time financial analytics; correlation and clustering of high-frequency financial data; Parallel algorithms for clustering and combinatorial optimization; developed parallel workflow for interactive and computationally-expensive data processing.
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2003 — September 2003 (5 months)
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
2004 — 2006
B.Sc. , Computer Science , 1998 — 2003
ultimate frisbee, travelling, web design, camping, fishing, wine, sushi
UBC Ultimate Frisbee Team, Regina Water Polo Association
NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship Award (2005-2007, University of British Columbia)
Presidents Medal, for Academic Excellence and Leadership (2003, University of Regina
University Prize in Science, for the Most Outstanding Science Graduate (2003, University of Regina)
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2003 & 2001, University of Regina)