Richard Shariff

Richard Shariff has extensive work experience in the field of engineering and technology. Richard started their career in 2004 as a Senior Software/Performance Engineer at TransactTools, a software vendor. Richard worked on a high-performance messaging trading system used by major exchanges and banks. In 2007, TransactTools was acquired by NYSE Inc.

From 2007 to 2013, Richard Shariff worked at Cantor Fitzgerald - Aqua Equities as the VP/Head of Technology/Performance Engineer. Richard was responsible for overseeing initiatives to improve the performance of Aqua's Algorithmic Trading Platform and Alternative Trading System. Richard also re-architected and developed the Aqua Matching Service for lower latency, higher throughput, and improved maintainability.

In 2014, Richard joined SmartFinance LLC as a Senior Software Engineer. Richard built core Java services for a personal finance mobile application, integrating with bank aggregators and managing real-time bank aggregation.

Since 2016, Richard Shariff has been working at Intersection Co. Richard has held various roles, including Senior Director of Engineering and Director of Engineering for LinkNYC. Richard has extensive experience in Golang, Python, Scala, and Java. Richard has also worked with AWS, Ansible, Docker, Postgres, and DynamoDB. In their roles, they have been involved in engineering road mapping, reducing costs, improving team effectiveness, and upgrading hardware for improved uptime.

Overall, Richard Shariff has a strong background in engineering and technology, with experience in leadership, performance optimization, and system design.

Richard Shariff has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University. The start and end years of their education are not provided.