Ned Hermann
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Work Experience

My professional journey and roles.

Resume

Senior Software Engineer

Predicting Alpha
Jan 2025 - Present

Led architectural migrations, backend API development, and team direction to ship modern, high-performance web applications.

  • Led the architectural migration of the core platform to a decoupled, TypeScript-based React SPA, replacing a server-driven UI to build more complex and maintainable features

  • Architected and delivered a new backend API using Python and FastAPI to support a new suite of on-demand machine learning tools and user management features

  • Recruited, onboarded, and directed a full-stack team of up to 4 engineers, owning feature development from conception to deployment

  • Established a new CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to support the containerized Python and React services, automating all build, test, and deployment processes

Software Engineer

Predicting Alpha
Sept 2021 - Jan 2025

Developed and optimized full-stack applications and data pipelines for financial strategies, transforming complex quantitative models into user-friendly software.

  • Architected a full-stack options analytics platform on AWS for over 1,000 users, featuring a reactive WebSocket API and a server-driven SPA frontend that utilized React libraries for dynamic UI components

  • Engineered over 20 interactive financial charts with Highcharter to visualize complex options data, transforming raw data tables into actionable visual insights

  • Engineered a high-performance data scanner capable of rendering and filtering thousands of rows across 200+ columns in under one second, enhancing user data analysis capabilities

  • Analyzed user behavior with Heap analytics to identify and resolve friction points in key workflows, leading to a redesigned UI that increased feature adoption by 20%

  • Increased marketing leads by 5% and user engagement by 10% by developing an automated infographic generation and distribution service using React and AWS

  • Developed an end-to-end internal analytics dashboard, unifying data from disparate SaaS sources to establish a single source of truth for accurate business KPIs

  • Developed over 10 batch ETL data pipelines using AWS services to populate a MongoDB database, providing the core data for the options analytics platform

  • Engineered a specialized data pipeline with GCP BigQuery, writing complex SQL transformations to process over 500GB of historical financial data for algorithmic strategy backtesting

  • Centralized over 100,000 logs from 10+ AWS data pipelines into a Grafana and Loki stack, reducing daily monitoring time from over 30 minutes to minutes