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IVAN LEE · SENIOR DEVELOPER

Building data systems
for quantitative finance

Currently at Crypto.com — architecting high-performance pipelines, real-time risk platforms, and AI-powered tools for front-office quants and traders.

3M+ Trades / Day
8+ Years Engineering
4 Desks Supported

Experience

Crypto.com Senior Developer — Quant Data Team
May 2024 — Present

Architecting high-performance data systems for front-office quants and traders across Spot, Options, and Swaps desks.

PythonClickHouseMongoDBKafkaAirflowFastAPIDockerGrafana
  • Launched AI initiative using Claude SDK + MCP, enabling natural language queries across internal data
  • Scaled real-time PnL & risk systems processing ~3M trades/day via vectorized Pandas + multiprocessing
  • Built ETL pipelines with Airflow & Jenkins transforming raw data into post-trade analytics
  • Designed FastAPI risk transfer system with dry-run impact analysis and approval workflows
  • Optimized MongoDB & ClickHouse with query guardrails to prevent DoS from expensive queries
DBS Bank Machine Learning Engineer — Data Platform
Dec 2022 — May 2024

Built the internal MLOps platform powering model development, deployment, and monitoring across the bank.

PythonDjangoKubernetesArgoCDSparkDockerJenkins
  • Automated model retraining/redeployment, reducing manual intervention by 90%
  • Built backend services + core DB schemas with Python & Django for unified ML platform
  • Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD for Spark jobs on Kubernetes, supporting department-wide model deployments
DBS Bank Senior Software Engineer — Proprietary Trading
Jul 2017 — Dec 2022

Built trading systems and NLP pipelines for the proprietary trading desk, supporting credit sentiment analysis and platform modernization.

PythonNLPFinBERTFront ArenaLinuxJenkins
  • Built NLP pipeline for credit sentiment: NER + disambiguation + FinBERT for pricing distressed bonds
  • Led Front Arena upgrade with performance improvements and vendor coordination (Certified Scrum Master)
  • Led migration from on-prem Solaris to Linux VPC, improving stability and maintainability

Skills

Data Infrastructure

ClickHouse OLAP at scale, query optimization
MongoDB Document store for trade data
Redis Caching & real-time state
Kafka Event streaming pipelines
Airflow Orchestration & ETL

ML & AI

Pandas / NumPy Vectorized data processing
NLP / FinBERT Credit sentiment analysis
Claude SDK / MCP AI initiative, natural language data queries
MLOps Automated retraining, ArgoCD, Spark

DevOps & Cloud

Docker Containerization
Kubernetes Orchestration at scale
AWS Cloud infrastructure
Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
Grafana Monitoring with Loki, Prometheus

Languages

Python Primary — data, ML, backend
Rust High-performance market data pipelines
SQL ClickHouse, PostgreSQL
TypeScript Frontend & tooling

Education

2022
Singapore Management University (SMU) M.Sc. in IT in Business — AI Track
2017
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) B.Eng. in Engineering Product Development
2016
MIT (IAP Exchange) Independent Activities Period
2015
Zhejiang University (Exchange) Engineering Exchange Programme

Certifications

AWS Cloud PractitionerAWS Solutions Architect AssociateCertified Scrum Master