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Griffin Garland

Software Engineer

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Languages: C++ · Python · C · SQL · Bash
Systems: Linux · Distributed Systems · Redis · RabbitMQ · Kafka · RESTful APIs · AWS
Build & Tooling: Static Analysis · CMake · Git · SVN · CI/CD · Docker · Claude Code

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Bloomberg LP (Developer Experience) · New York, NY

August 2026 – Present

Contributing to Spaces, Bloomberg's containerized platform for software development and AI coding agents, and Sidekick, an AI refactoring service on it that turns a prompt into a pull request via Claude and applies follow-up fixes from reviewer comments.
Implementing Spaces Variants, a least-privilege agent sandbox that restricts capabilities, such as shell and docker access, extending safe agent use to non-engineers.

Bloomberg LP (Developer Experience) · New York, NY

April 2024 – August 2026

Drove architecture and technical direction for static analysis across Bloomberg's codebase as team lead of STAAR (Static Analysis and Automated Refactoring); leading 6 engineers plus 2 contractors.
Operated and scaled the STAAR pipeline, a distributed static analysis system running over 2.5 million jobs per week across tens of thousands of independent repositories.
Integrated static analysis into Bloomberg's meta-build system (berg) and CI platform (Devise), creating a unified interface across all supported languages.
Delivered coverage for all 6 of Bloomberg's tier one and tier two languages to satisfy EU DORA and SSDF regulatory requirements.
Partnered with the CISO to detect over 500 vulnerability/language permutations, including SQL injection and memory safety issues.

Bloomberg LP (Trading Solutions) · New York, NY

May 2022 – March 2024

Owned technical direction and delivery for the Options and Loans team within AIM, Bloomberg's buy-side OMS; leading 5 engineers.
Co-owned the C++ “Order Trade Entry” ticketing engine processing up to hundreds of millions of transactions daily.
Led delivery of Bond Forwards and Loans support in the C++ ticketing engine, a gating requirement for institutional clients onboarding onto AIM; drove design and execution while implementing core order/trade persistence logic hands-on.
Partnered with AIM product owners to scope and prioritize the roadmap, converting client requirements into technical designs and delivery plans.

Bloomberg LP (Trading Solutions) · New York, NY

October 2017 – May 2022

Tech lead for the cross-department integration between BSKT (Bloomberg's basket-trading product) and AIM, eliminating manual re-entry and bringing BSKT clients onto AIM.
Implemented a RabbitMQ-based queueing system for AIM's C++ ticketing engine, allowing durable messaging with high scaling.
Designed and implemented a Redis-backed distributed caching layer for the Order Defaults settings service — 5× faster page loads, 50× lower latency on cached request types, with a >99% hit rate.
Migrated 21 core services and libraries to Linux as part of Bloomberg's company-wide migration off legacy UNIX OSes (Solaris and AIX).
Led the migration of JavaScript UI components to a new WebKit-based rendering engine as part of a company-wide initiative.
Selected as a technical leader of the Trading Solutions refactoring working group, helping developers migrate legacy C++ to Linux.

Solace Corporation · Kanata, ON

April 2017 – August 2017

Implemented LDAP authentication in Java for the Solace Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) tile.
Automated test environment provisioning with AWS CloudFormation, standing up pre-configured EC2 instances on demand.

Solace Corporation · Kanata, ON

June 2015 – March 2017

Maintained and extended the C++ configuration management software for the Solace Messaging Appliance.
Designed and implemented a RESTful configuration management API in Python.
Redesigned the auto-generated Python command handling infrastructure around a polymorphic approach.

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Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Toronto, ON

September 2010 – June 2015

Technical Skills