Daniel Corbett

Consultant

• Designed and developed PMZBot, which trades SPX options from the /ES “pre-market zone” (PMZ) combined with several other indicators.
• Developing AiTradingBot, a simulation-only AI trading harness built on PMZBot market data, and its sign-in web app, AiTrading Strategy Studio. Versioned strategy packs run through one pipeline (features, AI decision, validation and risk gates, simulated fill, journal) for live simulation and replay.
• Tested and reviewed trading bots on the PeakBot platform.
• Designed and built the Trendy Elite Investments marketing website and email funnel for Tr3ndy Trading’s founder; wrote a ThinkScript indicator for Tr3ndy Trading; building automated marketing tools.
• Build software factories for AI-assisted development on several platforms, most recently Orca.

Lead Software Architect and Principal Engineer

• Joined Radian through its acquisition of Five Bridges.
• Designed and built a high-throughput architecture for automated valuation models (AVMs), scaling from a handful of AVMs per minute to the entire US housing stock in hours. This made the Housing Price Index (HPI) possible.
• Evolved the architecture with the modeling team across successive AVM versions, including image support.
• Mentored engineers across the team and contributed to many other projects.

Lead Software Architect

• Architected a batch platform that processes the full universe of loan-backed securities on a fleet of AWS servers pulling jobs from a Hangfire backbone, replacing a more limited WCF design.
• Built an IdentityServer 4 authentication and authorization server shared by multiple applications.
• Helped migrate an ASP.NET MVC UI to an Angular single-page app.
• Ran periodic performance evaluations with recommendations across multiple applications; supported IT staff with AWS administration and troubleshooting; mentored the team in .NET and C#.

Lead Software Architect

• Provided architecture for immigration-control software (IICS) and wrote its architectural and user documentation.
• Designed and built a Neo4j graph database fusing immigration records with entities extracted from search results and country-supplied data such as tax rolls and health data; with a UI developer, delivered a Person of Interest search that lets officials assess travelers for terrorism, health, and criminal risk.
• Wrote requirements for each IICS release and worked with remote IT staff supporting in-country sites.
• Set up C# coding standards and an internal wiki for developers and remote IT staff; built prototypes and mentored developers in C#, XML serialization, Entity Framework, and LINQ.

Senior Software Engineer

• Designed, built, and maintained SIS v2, a school-system provisioning application in C# using CQRS, replacing a product with severe scaling limits. Used Neo4j for the view database, MongoDB as the event store, and NServiceBus/MSMQ as the event bus.
• SIS v2 provisioned Google, Moodle, a collaboration platform, and mail services in parallel at scale.
• Contributed to a Java rewrite on Neo4j, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ, with portions in C#.

Senior Software Engineer

• Designed and developed the eSubmissions and PCII workflow applications: ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC n-tier systems using C#, Telerik, jQuery, WCF, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Symantec Scan Engine, and EasyPDF.
• Delivered the WebEOC web services project: four WCF/SQL Server applications, including a WCF router, integrating third-party systems.

Senior Software Engineer

• Led a release that brought WYSIWYG editing across the product, after evaluating WYSIWYG options for a mixed ASP and ASP.NET codebase.
• Led a six-engineer chat team replacing the chat product; ran requirements analysis and evaluated XMPP servers.
• Managed stories, tasks, and iterations in XPlanner on an Agile Scrum team.

Senior Software Engineer

• Updated a C++ application that manages root PKI certificates on end-user PCs, used heavily by the DoD to distribute new root certificates across government.
• Made the GES Portal / Defense Online registration system reliable under multi-threading, added features, and enabled user-managed certificate updates.
• Built a more reliable SharePoint/C# interface from Defense Online to WebEx; created an F5 iControl application and maintained an LDIF/PKI directory-cleaning tool in Java.

Part-time consultant

• Built an ASP.NET web service behind a Flash front end providing inventory, pricing, scheduling, and customer-usage functions.
• Wrote C# tools to scrape tire data, merge vendor databases into a central database, and process orders.

Consultant

• Replaced hard-to-use, expensive scheduling options with a custom client and web system: staff edit schedules locally and sync over dial-up, and technicians and clients view schedules online. Built with ASP.NET, C#, Access, and web services.

Business owner

• After leaving AOL, owned and operated several businesses.

Architect; Manager, Search Systems; Senior Developer

• Designed a scalable member directory during AOL’s period of rapid membership growth and turned it into a quality product; invented its members-online feature.
• Created search and feed-factory architectures that improved reliability and scalability; the feed factory began as a profiling system I built for AOL News staff.
• Managed and mentored a team of 13 developers; handled estimates, budgeting, resource planning, and operational support; presented to management and worked with product marketing on new products.
• Built the initial chat-search prototype and worked on match-chat and dating concepts; supported the acquisition and integration of Personal Library Software and its team.
• Tools: C++ and object-oriented modeling, Sybase, Tcl, Perl, Unix, PLS search engine, ClearCase, Purify, Rational Rose.

Contractor

• Added parallel search to the PLS engine in C++ for Dow Jones, letting threads continue while others waited on VAX I/O, which significantly increased search performance.

Senior Developer

• Built class libraries and a graphical interface (C++, Motif, X Windows, Oracle) for scheduling upgrades to military equipment used in critical missions.

Contractor

• Rewrote nearly the entire accounting system in a year (C, Curses, Unify), with 10x performance gains in many areas from data entry to reporting.

Co-owner and partner

• Managed a small development team. Using an early C++ translator, built an application-builder product with a SQL layer over c-tree, and used it to deliver accounting (GL, AP, AR, inventory, PO, receiving), EDI, and manufacturing modules plus vertical apps for tour agencies, food brokerage, telephone sales, and retail.

Developer

• Worked on a post-office terminal, an FAA flight-center proposal, and recording-device interface software; fixed a bug in a TCP/IP driver on a small x86 Unix system.

Electrical Engineer

• Developed scan-converter components, managed FLIR back-end integration, managed navigation-system software development, and contributed to requirements.

B.S., Electrical Engineering