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Anthony Grimes

About me

Who am I

I'm Anthony, a software engineer specialising within the finance domain. With over a decades of experience, I've worked across various specialties such as financial risk and compliance, buy-side trading and most recently I have been working within the consumer payments space.

Where I've worked

  1. BR-DGE

    2022 - Present

    BR-DGE (opens external site) is building the next generation in payment orchestration.

    At BR-DGE, I've delivered solutions providing network tokenization features for card schemes such as Visa and Mastercard; created automated data migration pipelines that allow the transfer of sensitive customer and card data across various platforms; processor integrations with Worldpay and Checkout; and I'm currently building support for our customer cashier product.

  2. BlackRock

    2021 - 2022

    BlackRock (opens external site) is building best-in-class investment tooling.

    At Blackrock, I worked on unifying our post-trade reconciliation tooling into a single source of truth. I was closely working with business analysts and existing engineering teams to ensure complete feature parity across existing systems. Our platform enabled a self-service, rules driven approach to data analysis and reporting which did not exist at the time.

  3. JPMorganChase

    2018 - 2021

    JPMorganChase (opens external site) is building a complete financial platform, covering investments, banking, risk, research and more.

    At JPMC my exposure ranged from delivering a firm-wide controls and review suite which ensured application and team compliance, continuously ingesting and processing petabytes of data generated by internal applications, as well as, working directly with our trade teams on our Spectrum trade platform, enabling first-class trade tooling.

  4. MTC Media

    2017 - 2018

    MTC Media (opens external site) is building bespoke e-commerce solutions for every business.

    At MTC, I worked on improving our internal onboarding platform. Adding features such as guided training, profiles and comment systems. I additionally, assisted with the creation and maintenance of an internal development framework which enabled one-click setup and deployments for new customers.

What I've worked with

Programming
Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Typescript, Astro, TailwindCSS
Cloud
AWS(EC2, S3, Lambda, Aurora), Kubernetes, Openshift, Terraform, Ansible
Database
Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Couchbase, SQLite
Other
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, Docker, git
Industry Knowledge
Payments, Trading, Financial Risk and Compliance, Cybersecurity
Currently Learning
iOS Development

Elsewhere