Summary
Timothy Fitzgerald is a Lead Architect with nearly three decades of engineering and architecture experience and nine years focused on cloud and data solutions for financial services. He has shepherded large analytics, AI, trading and risk systems into scalable Azure and AWS deployments using Databricks, Snowflake, Spark and distributed real-time architectures. Comfortable leading small senior teams, he combines hands-on coding in Scala/Java and deep expertise in distributed persistence with a track record of performance and throughput improvements in mission-critical finance systems. His career spans major banks and vendors—designing trading platforms, real-time market data systems, and large-scale storage—so he brings both domain expertise in derivatives and pragmatic delivery experience. Not obvious from his current title: he cut his teeth implementing object and real-time systems in C++ and Smalltalk, giving him a rare depth across legacy and modern architectures.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate work in Mathematical Optics, Graduate work in Mathematical Optics at University of Rochester
BS Electrical Engineering, BA Computer Science, Minor Mathematics, BS Electrical Engineering, BA Computer Science, Minor Mathematics at University at Buffalo