Miquel Vande Velde
I am a problem solver. I am passionate about technology, interested in the financial markets, and have a degree in both. I have an analytical mind and am keen to apply that in any future challenge.
Experience
Senior Product Software Engineer
Developing and maintaining the implementation of the Standardised approach for counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR). Our application offers banks either a standalone or SaaS solution for the SA-CCR calculations as defined by the Basel norms. Deployment is done using the wildfly application server. My responsibilities on the project include developing the calculations in Java and in a supporting 'DSL' language as well as supporting non technical team members. As the 'security champion' of the application I am also responsible for complying with the OWASP Application Security and Verification Standard.
Product Software Engineer
Developing the "ETL" application that helps banks comply with their reporting obligations.
Financial Analyst
Support clients in defining their real estate needs and evaluate their performance. Create bespoke models to benchmark their portfolio and assess different scenarios. Data and geographic analysis (commute analysis, mapping). Developed an optimal location analysis tool based on clustering techniques (KNN, Density Estimation). Provide overall financial support (Cash Flow, P&L, NPV, IRR) as well as calculating sensitivity on those.
Junior Financial Analyst
See above.
Intern
Assessed the opportunity to add geographic diversification to their online investment advice tool. Worked with the data team to automate data flows and checkpoints. Was offered a paid summer position to help with the launch of their online application.
Bartender
Worked four nights a week to finance my living costs and masters degree.
Intern
During this internship I learnt the basics of retail banking and commercial strategies used on a local scale. Was offered a full time position by the end of the internship.
Education
University College Ghent
Magna cum laude
University of Ghent
Magna cum laude
University of Ghent
Distinction
University College Ghent
With merit
DVM Humaniora, Aalst
Class of 2010
Projects
World Cup Betting Pool
A Django powered web app to create a betting pool amongst friends. Currently only supports desktop views.
Geospatial Point Manager
A python module that allows for the clustering and managment of latitude and longitude points.
PDF Text Searcher
A python command line tool that looks for the occurance of a word in all pdf files in a folder.