# Sebastian Dakey > Software Engineer I @ Bank of America Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/sebastiandakey I’m a Python developer at Bank of America, supporting trading desks. My work has involved automating critical processes, improving data quality, and delivering real-time risk reporting for traders in an environment where speed and accuracy directly impact business outcomes. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer, Global Non-Linear Rates Technology @ Bank of America Jan 2024 – Present | Greater London, England, United Kingdom Automated Bond Data Updates: Built an automated process to update bond static data intraday by integrating live market data feeds. This cut manual intervention, ensured prices were updated immediately, and reduced operational risk. Data Quality for Overnight Batches: Developed start-of-day data quality checks for overnight trading batches, identifying errors before traders saw them. Reduced downstream issues and improved trust in data. Trader-Focused Risk Reporting: Delivered Portfolio and risk reports used directly by trading desks. These replaced legacy systems and improved both speed and accuracy of decision-making. Operational Risk Mitigation: Rolled out stale price detection reports and other health checks that reduced significant operational risks for the desk. ### Product Manager @ Irembo Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Kigali City, Rwanda Aligned stakeholder expectations and developed product roadmaps for an invoicing solution, encompassing payment simulation and dashboard with metrics features. Gathered and documented requirements, translating business needs into detailed feature specifications for the developer Fostered a collaborative environment, working effectively with cross-functional teammates, including Quality Assurance, DevOps, and developer, to ensure seamless implementation of product features. Monitored project progress, incorporating stakeholder and user feedback to enhance product functionality and user experience, ensuring timely delivery of key milestones. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant - Data Analytics @ Carnegie Mellon University Africa Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Kigali City, Rwanda Crafting a set of stimulating programming tasks that challenge students and solidify key concepts covered in the course. Facilitating interactive office hours to offer personalized guidance to students, addressing their homework concerns, and clarifying conceptual doubts effectively. Developing Python scripts to automate the grading process for homework assignments, streamlining and enhancing the assessment workflow. ### Software Engineer @ Bank of America Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom Engineered a web application with Dash catering to traders' needs, enabling seamless entry of yield curves. This dynamic platform supports bidirectional interactions between the user interface and the database, incorporates robust state management, provides detailed insights into specific yield curves, and facilitates the effortless publishing of curves. This innovative solution supersedes the previous reliance on Excel for managing yield curves. ### Project Coordinator @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana Enhanced the mentor-mentee pairing process's efficiency by developing a streamlined system, ensuring effective regulation, continuous monitoring, and optimization. Drastically minimized access time to program data by implementing an internal website dedicated to organizing and maintaining up-to-date program information. Successfully processed more than 10 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) compute credit requests, adeptly resolving various technical and logistical challenges. ### Teaching Assistant @ Ashesi University Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Eastern, Ghana Achieved over 95% pass rate of students across three courses by leading several discussions sessions for about 90 students taking them through labs, and explaining class concepts Assisted students with course materials and one-to-one office hours to respond to their concerns and implement individually tailored strategies to help students understand and excel in the course Effective managed multitasking between attendance recording, grading, assignments, exams, and other assessments for over 90 students across three courses using Canvas Learning Management System ### Data Science Content Developer @ 10 Academy Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berlin, Germany Curated high-quality data science tutorials, assignments, and quizzes for over 50 students each week, covering key topics in NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, among others Held office hours to explain assignments and data science concepts, among others, to over 50 students Enhanced student learning experiences by providing mentorship to students to help them navigate the learning experience ### Spring Intern - Technology @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom ### Career Peer Advisor @ Ashesi University Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Berekusu, Eastern Region Provide services to peers that include critiques of resumes and cover letters. Provide career assistance or general advising to peers on CV writing, networking skills, and career path development. Market career center services to students to create awareness about available career resources ### Summer Intern @ Rancard Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Accra, Ghana • Built and integrated an Augmented Reality (AR) feature with Facebook’s Spark AR, with a team of three into the company’s recommendation system, Rendezvous, to provide an additional dimension of interaction for users by allowing them to view store items in AR • Generated queries, with Cypher query language, from the company’s graph database that powers its recommendation system to glean in on activities of stores on the platform. ### Project Lead @ Blossom Academy Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Accra, Ghana 1. Conducted exploratory data analysis on LifeBank’s historic data of purchases of blood through data cleaning and visualizations using pandas, matplotlib, numpy and seaborn 2. Forecasted the demand for blood using the Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) time series model ### Student Activities Intern @ Swarthmore College Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Swarthmore, Pensylvania 1. Assisted in planning large all-campus events, including Halloween, Winter Formal 2. Provided support to students and student organizations planning events through regular drop-in hours in the Office of Student Engagement ### IT Intern @ Enval Laboratories Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Abidjan, Ivory Coast • Built a user-friendly website with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to provide a platform for customers of the company to have a central point of access to lab results. • Collaborated with the client to understand his needs and designed an interface that met those needs. ### Summer Intern @ Ashesi University Career Services Department Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berekusu 1. Assisted in the planning and implementation of career services programs such as employers’ forum, site visits, and alumni events. 2. Managed the career services inbox and other student and alumni platforms. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Information Technology Carnegie Mellon University Africa ### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Management Information Systems, General Ashesi University ### Graduate Summer School Program in Innovation and Technology IE Business School ### Swarthmore College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sebastian-dakey --- Source: https://flows.cv/sebastiandakey JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sebastiandakey/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05