Summary
Daniel Pailes-Friedman is a seasoned senior developer and vice president with over two decades of hands-on experience building large-scale Java/J2EE and .NET systems in the financial services sector. He has led development and production support at major institutions including Morgan Stanley, AllianceBernstein, and UBS, consistently bridging technical design with stakeholder-facing roles such as portfolio managers and trading teams. A strong practitioner of object-oriented analysis, design patterns, and T-SQL, he combines deep backend expertise with a proactive, creative problem-solving approach. His background includes an uncommon blend of formal art education (BFA) and a master's in computer science, which informs a pragmatic yet design-minded engineering style. Although his GitHub points to a nontraditional bio link, his career demonstrates steady delivery on mission-critical trading and research platforms. Based in New York, he excels both as an individual contributor and as a technical leader driving full lifecycle development.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts at University of Michigan
Bachelor Fine Arts, Bachelor Fine Arts at Pratt Institute
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Pace University