# Julio Cernadas

> Product Development

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/juliocernadas

Designing, building, and extending products at scale.

Skills: Full Stack Development, ML/RL, AI Agents, AI Native Applications, Data Engineering (Batch and Streaming), DevOps (CICD), Cloud Architecture and Much More!

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, NY
• Fintech product

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, NY
• Full Stack - Product Development
• GenAI Agents, RAG, Agentic workflows
• LLM Chatbots, Autocomplete, Summaries
• Automated Scheduling Infra and UX
• Data Privacy Consent Framework
• PHP/Hack, Python, JavaScript, React, Relay, Flow
• GraphQL, REST APIs, Apache Thrift (RPC)
• MySQL, Presto, Apache Hive, Cassandra
• Distributed Search, Distributed Logging
• Asynchronous Processing, DB Sharding
• Buck2, Mono Repos, Mercurial
• Salesforce APIs, Workday APIs, Mulesoft
• Product Design, Figma

### Software Engineer @ Ness Digital Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, NY
• Consulted as software engineer / quant for top buy side and sell side shops.
• Developed enterprise grade products for trading, financial instruments, compliance, recruitment, data ingestion, and evaluations. Leveraged many design patterns like: mvc, unit of work, event/context, abstraction/protocols, strategy, adapters, decorators, error handling, dependency injection/inversion, data access vs business layer, and facades.

Market Axess Inc:
• Pioneered the Index and ETF business through the successful launch of our "US Investment Grade 400 Corporate Bond" index ($LQIG), transforming a small initiative into a foundational pillar of company revenue. Led all tech deliverables to release the first SPDR fixed income ETF built on liquidity (+$28 Million AUM).

Millennium LP:
• Architected an analytics web application that drove a fund-of-funds selection process to identify alpha and investment opportunity, delivering 20% higher fund ROI. Service was hosted on AWS, powered by Python data operations orchestrated with Apache Airflow and persisted on Postgres and S3. GUI was developed with React front-end and Flask back-end, and assisted with an analytics dashboards on Tableau. 

Nomura Holdings Inc:
• Innovated a serverless data pipeline and dashboard for navigating FINRA CAT compliance. Written in Python and Apache Spark, and hosted on AWS services like S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, and Quick Sights.

London Stock Exchange Group:
• Spearheaded system design for a "dev-ops as a service" web application by leveraging the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS), it enabled users to build CI/CD pipelines via a drag and drop GUI.

### Implementation Engineer @ EZOPS Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• Managed client environment installations and upgrades through automated build scripts, configuration management, memory optimization, scalability from containers and service orchestration (docker swarm).
• Maintained 99% server uptime through Data Dog monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and minimizing potential risks. Conserved 45% of AWS costs by developing infrastructure monitoring scripts and introducing a cloud management Slack app that was connected to several Lambda functions

### Finance Intern @ McAdam Financial
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Woodbridge, NJ
• Prepared risk evaluation and exposure reports on annuities for several fund clients. 
• Applied quantitative fundamental analysis to propose alternative market securities.
• Crafted discounted cash flow models with excel worksheets.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Finance
University of Maryland
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Web Development
Byte Academy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### High School Diploma
Livingston High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julio-cernadas
- Website: http://www.jcernadas.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/julio-cernadas?tab=repositories

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Last updated: 2026-03-23