Frank Tobin

I prefer opportunities that allow me to remain in the Charleston, SC area. I have proven experience working with remote colleagues and clients.

Experience

Quantitatively analyzed clients’ equity order performance
Advised clients on how to trade more efficiently per their needs
Lead architect of the analytics platform the research team uses, built in R, Python, and KDB/Q
Spearheaded new visualizations of complex datasets
Investigated and explained ad-hoc markets analytics research to clients

Co-authored market-leading client-order algorithmic strategies
Lead software architect and implementer of market-making strategies and trading infrastructure
Lead architect and implementer of market-making strategies and trading infrastructure, developed in a variety of languages
Responsible for all aspects of the development cycle of projects: idea generation, architecture, implementation, testing, release, operations, and maintenance
Developed solutions for diverse business teams: traders, compliance, trading services, and outside contractors
Increased profitability and trading volumes through numerous design and performance improvements
Reviewed all levels of code check-ins
Mentored junior developers
Gathered and developed business requirements for transitioning to a new order management system
Designed a next-generation system for internal P&L allocation

Developed over a dozen open source programs and utilities designed for Linux environments
Pyzor, an anti-spam tool, was adopted by a commercial enterprise
Other projects have been incorporated into various Linux distributions’ packaging systems

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science

Pyzor: Python networked spam-signature detection system, adopted by a commercial enterprise
rsnappush: rsync wrapper for pushing incremental backup snapshots
Python GnuPGInterface: Python interface to GnuPG
ReadyExec: Python/C system to pre-load Python code and have it generally accessible from Linux command-line calls.
keystory: Python program to generate reports on the OpenPGP signatures an email address uses. Designed to practically complement the web of trust.
Pythius: Python toolkit for assessing the quality of Python code through code metrics. Responsible for Aspect-Oriented Programming functionality.
Python xmlprinter: Simple Python module to help write out XML documents.

Discovered and disclosed a system security hole in Unix systems that use S/Key and sudo to BugTraq, an industry-respected security mailing list.