Croydon Dias

315 Coral Apartments, London E14 7GL

Phone: +44 7982 851611 E-mail: croydondias@gmail.com
Residency status: NZ citizen

CAREER OBJECTIVE
To associate with an organization where there is ample scope for organizational as well as
individual growth.
Seeking a position to utilise my skills and abilities as a software developer while solving
interesting problems.

SKILLS
High Proficiency
Java/Swing/Google GWT
Postgres/MySQL
Windows and Linux
GIT, SVN & CVS
Jenkins CI

KEY STRENGTHS

Sound Proficiency
Oracle
AngularJS/Bootstrap
Java EE/Tomcat/JBoss
Struts/Spring/Hibernate
HTML/CSS/jQuery
C#
Python

Proficient in Java and object-oriented analysis designed systems with a focus on ease of maintenance.
Experience in all parts of the software development
cycle requirements analysis, design, implementation,
testing & support.
Excellent communication skills - a history of working
with people from various cultural backgrounds and
positions.
Ability to deliver results whether independently, in a
team or under pressure - exercised at my current job by
diagnosing and fixing software issues during stock market
trading hours.
Passion for software development - demonstrated by
my long-running interest in software development and
comments from supervisors regarding my thoroughness
and excellent code quality.
Superior time management skills with a high
attention to detail.
Ability to research and solve problems - proven by my
success in identifying and automating tasks thereby leading
to cost savings and improved accuracy.
Honesty and high standards of professionalism - as
commended by colleagues.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2014 present
OctJava
Drools
Oracle
Google GWT

Software Engineer Citi, London

Part of a global developmental team working in Asset
Servicing, automating corporate actions.
Liaised with business analysts and system architects to
ensure a robust scalable application that meets the
business requirements.
Active member of level 3 support team.
Took charge of managing developmental infrastructure for
the whole team Jenkins, Sonar, Sonatype Nexus, DEV, UAT
and INT servers.

Worked closely with the IT lead to implement a

performance monitoring system using Graphite, Grafana,
and collectd.
Organised speaker events for graduates to get a better idea
of the career prospects at Citi.

Aug 2011 Aug 2014

Software Engineer Regal Funds Management, Sydney

Key member in the software team responsible for the
development of a cutting edge trading (fundamental &
quant) platform.
Java, Swing
Lead developer on a project that involves creating a web
application for the trading platform so that traders could
JMS/ActiveMQ
access the system from their mobiles.
C#
o Responsive design using Angular JS and Twitter
Postgres
Bootstrap.
JIRA

Developed
and maintained responsibility for IT processes
AngularJS/Bootstrap
associated with the core business environment e.g. trade
FIX protocol,
reconciliation, legal requirements, accounting, risk &
Cameron FIX
valuation, internal & external reporting.
engine, IRESS
Liaised with different department heads to translate
Bloomberg, Reuters
business requirements and deliver technical solutions.
Linux (Ubuntu)
Actively contributed to the design and architecture of the
bespoke IT system: Database design, GUI design, Quant
development.
Quick thinker on one fatal day, the main server which
hosted all user data stopped booting. This bought the entire
company to a standstill. Having no backups on hand made
the situation even worse. I booted the server off a linux live
CD and was able to recover all the data. My colleague
reinstalled the operating system and transferred the data
back on.
Monitored the live system for faults and was the first point
of contact for support queries.
Expanded my knowledge on the various trading
instruments such as equities, warrants, futures, options.
Maintained an open source project (atdl4j) used in the
trading platform. I revamped the order entry system so that
it was easier to add support for new brokers with a variety
of new execution algorithms. This also reduced the time
required for testing.
Worked on automatic trade reconciliation through multiple
Prime brokers UBS, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Merrill
Lynch; resulting in backoffice staff leaving home on time.
Automated a monthly interest posting process that would
take a day of manual data entry to complete.
Added support for locating stock borrows electronically
thereby enabling the traders to quickly find the best rate
from multiple brokers.
Liaised with IT teams from multiple brokers to facilitate
trading via FIX - UBS, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche
bank, Credit Suisse, Instinet, Merrill Lynch and more.
Integrated with Bloomberg to handle corporate actions,
thereby cutting down the daily backoffice tasks. Saved 30
minutes daily and improved accuracy.

Developed a realtime view of the current position held in a

security. Was an instant hit throughout the company, due to
being a well designed feature that was instantaneous.
Previously, users had to obtain the same data from complex
excel reports which was slow and cumbersome.

Jan 2011 Aug 2011

Java EE
JBoss/Tomcat
MySQL
Spring/Struts/Hibe
rnate/Google GWT
JUnit/Selenium
Maven
Jenkins CI
Linux
(RedHat/CentOS)

Software Developer IVS Telecommunications Ltd., Sydney

Responsible for maintaining quality assurance across two
applications.
Developed and automated functional, unit and user
interface tests using JUnit, Selenium and Jenkins.
Performed stress testing to measure database performance.
Streamlined the entire project build process using Maven,
which allowed for more flexibility in development.
Lead developer for the firms latest application (Adaptiv) in
the telecommunications sector.
Added support for Single sign on across all existing
applications.
Assisted the support team on technical queries.
Involved in writing technical documentation.

Nov 2009 Mar 2010

Auckland
Java
XML
Source control
(SVN)

Undergraduate Researcher University of Auckland,

Mar 2009 Jul 2009

HTML/CSS
Python, Django
MySQL

Analyst Programmer WALTI, Auckland

A tech start up that I was involved in since the beginning.
Designed and developed a Facebook app that helps nonprofit organisations reach out to people.

Developed an algorithm that optimally scheduled tasks in a

parallel system, taking identical data into account.
Tested the algorithm over a variety of task graphs to ensure
proper functionality.

EDUCATION
2013 2014
Computer Professional Education Program (CPEP)
Australian Computer Society
Subjects completed:
Risk Management (79/100).
Business, Strategy & IT (84/100).
New Technology Alignment (80/100).
Business Analysis (89/100).
2007 2010
Systems)
GPA
7.30/9.00

First Class Honours in Bachelors of Engineering (Computer

University of Auckland
Project work:
Mobile gesture based interaction developed a robust framework
that allowed mobiles (Android) and wiimotes to interact with
applications dynamically using their inbuilt sensors.
Managed the project and acted as team lead.
Experience on client-server applications.
Mobile development (Java, Android SDK).

Documentation.

This degree also gave me exposure to topics and

technologies that I have not yet used professionally, such
as:
Distributed embedded systems.
Robotics and intelligent systems.
Artificial intelligence and fuzzy systems.

AWARDS

1st class honours for Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Systems, University of

Auckland.
1st prize certificate in the Mobile Gesture Based Interaction project, University of
Auckland.

LINKS

Github https://github.com/croydondias?tab=repositories
Linkedin https://uk.linkedin.com/in/croydondias