Simmie Kastner
Product Area Leader (Vice President) @Fidelity Investments
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WORK HISTORY
Product Area Leader (Vice President) @Fidelity Investments
NC, US
Product Area Leader for DIFS platform portfolio, including strategic, highly visible and critical Baskets API Platform. Solo FidFolios on Fidelity.com is first consumer. Lead build and successfully launched July 11 2022. Launch was on time and stable and included production deployment of market data for analysis. Cloud-first approach using AWS components EC2 for compute, Kubernetes for containers, Kafka for inter-system communication, Oracle and Snowflake for persistent data organization. All deliveries on time and stable with high priority committed items included. Role involves intense cross-organization collaboration and negotiation. Advocate consistently for flexible architecture approach, allowing for enterprise re-use of API platform- several options in the works. Heavily engaged in overall DIFS product strategy.
EDUCATION
American University
BS Computer Science, Computer Science, Fine Art
ABOUT SIMMIE KASTNER
Inspiring leader and change agent in a broad range of roles; passionate about better financial products and services, achieved flexibly and efficiently. Product Area Leader of Tax Systems and Portfolios, including brokerage subsystems for all accounts, and enterprise Baskets Platform, implementing sub-portfolios within a single account, trading in fractional shares. APIs built cloud-first using AWS components, Oracle and Snowflake for persistent data and Kafka for intersystem communication. Strategically visible and critical product set. First Baskets consumer on Fidelity.com, launched July 2022. All deliveries on time and stable. Flexible architecture, engineering excellence and observability. FINRA Operations Professional, PMI PMP, Certified Scrum Master.Led quality assurance for FI products serving B-Ds and RIAs. Led Centers of Excellence for Fidelity Brokerage Technology QA; Test Data Management, End to End Testing and Standards / Audit Compliance. Test software as an asset; advanced test automation, cloud-based data virtualization, and ETL tools for mass rules testing. Responsibility for all parts of 3-tier web architecture and mobile. Associate span 140; portfolio about $165M.Domains : Brokerage Technology, Financial Applications including Crypto, HR Solutions and Benefits, Operations, Data and Business Analysis; Health and Wellness, Education/Training/Education Media, Nonprofit Business.Managed Oracle Education Operations in the US for 4 years,$32M budget at 50% profit.Technology and Product Leadership Including Cloud and Mobile;Performance and Functional Quality Assurance and Test Data Management;UI and DB Software Development;DBA Leadership and Execution;Operations Management with Production Support and Call Centers;Agile, ITIL, expressed are as of the date indicated and may change based on market and other conditions. Unless otherwise noted, the opinions provided are those of the author, and not necessarily those of Fidelity Investments. Links to third-party web sites may be shared on this page. Those sites are unaffiliated with Fidelity. Fidelity has not been involved in the preparation of the content supplied at the unaffiliated site and does not guarantee or assume any responsibility for its content. Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, Member NYSE, SIPC 900 Salem Street, Smithfield, RI 02••••••••10
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