Lawrence McDaniel

Full Stack Developer specializing in cloud computing and responsive web and mobile development using Amazon Web Services and many popular open source stacks and development frameworks. Extensive experience installing & customizing Open edX.

Technology and fund raising advisor to the Mexico leadership team during pre and post acquisition of Consupago, an early-stage, Mexico City-based FinTech startup launched by Chedraui Group. Completed $51 million dollar series-A round. Simultaneously acted as technology liaison during planning stages of a fully-chartered Mexican credit card bank startup BancoFacil. Completed $100 million dollar series-A round. Technology Focuses: Credit scoring, Database design, Data center design

Used data science and big data principals to architect the software platform for the Sequoai Fund, an algorithmic trading platform that consistently outperformed its peers. Oversaw growth of the fund from $3 million to $130 million USD. Was Responsible for R&D of data warehousing, backtesting and factor-testing tools, as well as the design, coding, testing and daily operation of all custom-developed software for portfolio construction, daily trading for portfolio optimization & rebalance, stock selection, trade execution strategy optimization, and daily reporting & investor reporting. Technology Focuses: Automated trading systems, Compustat, Factset, Capital IQ, Real Time Prices using RSS, Visual Basic .Net, Microsoft Excel, Excel VBA, MS Outlook VBA, MS SQL database design, Transact-SQL, Data center & infrastructure design.