Nick J. Lange's CV

• Email: jobs@nicklange.family
• Location: New York
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Summary

Platform Engineering Leader with deep expertise in electronic trading infrastructure, distributed systems, and global co-location deployments across six continents.

Principal architect driving performance, platform selection, orchestration, security policy and compliance for specialized trading infrastructure.

Hands-on experience with FMI/Exchange Co-Location at almost every major exchange globally, including many emerging markets.

Experience

Morgan Stanley, Executive Director - Specialized Electronic Trading Infrastructure (SETI)

New York, NY

July 2017 – present

8 years 7 months

The core of the role is understanding "Why do we do it that way?" in the context of latency, stability, applications, and cost and helping craft a vision for others to follow and help implement in partnership with our stakeholders.

• Individual Contributor: POCs and Architecture across security and design

• Leadership: Driving change across the platform to increase performance or decrease time to market, coaching others to their best performance

• Team-of-Teams Global Engineering Manager: Servers, Peripherals, OS, Firmware, Cabling, Networks, Firewalls, Security and Infra Automation

• Built large lab and hired team of teams in specific disciplines to modernize provisioning, management and operations of the plant

• Senior Management: Global portfolio escalation for deployment and operation to ensure we can run the business

Morgan Stanley MUFG, Vice President - Specialized Electronic Trading Infrastructure (SETI)

Japan

Oct 2007 – July 2017

9 years 10 months

• Working directly with the equity and market making desks, strats and Algo IT solving both low-level problems to market setup questions

• Parachuted in to fire-fight systematic complex technical outages across Research and Trading Operations using outage metrics to craft "Get Well" program

• Led multiple global virtual teams to set time-to-market records for deployment of co-location builds in Americas, EMEA and Asia

• Architected bespoke Cisco/Arista and Mellanox/Solarflare configurations for key clients in Asia to keep latency down

• Technical oversight and ownership of next generation infrastructure for Equity algo plant across firmwide network, instrumentation, security and server teams

• Researched/Identified/onboarded several key Asian carriers providing >50% latency improvements

• Built/operated R&D labs in New York including line management of 3 engineers to identify key latency metrics

• Drove platform deployment automation and optimization to reduce human touchpoints

• Built plant "collection" framework in Perl/Python/Splunk to streamline plant management across servers and switches

• Co-authored release and host configuration / rolling release and timing system strategy for electronic trading

Morgan Stanley MUFG, Vice President - QA and Production Management Horizontal Engineering

Japan

Oct 2007 – July 2017

9 years 10 months

Horizontal role servicing the Asia/Japan Equities businesses on a team focused on reducing expert knowledge required to run a globally distributed plant via automation, frameworks and human processes.

• Wrote global configuration parser for equities systems to answer key management questions like "What happens if we lose DC X?"

• Led complete infrastructure co-location builds at ASX, NSE, TSE and OSE

• Rationalized DC strategy for Sales and Trading across several Asia markets for Equity Management

• Designed and delivered next day trading solution to mitigate franchise/reputation risk for unnamed market

• Migrated non-prod infra to consolidated platform freeing up $300K for revenue generating projects

• Worked on capacity management framework to help equity management rationalize spending decisions

• Defined procedures and migrated common operational activities to offshore resources

iTeam Companies, Consultant

USA

Aug 2007 – Oct 2007

3 months

• Rejoined ex-Fifth Third/USB colleagues to hire full-time replacement and manage IT Helpdesk services for financial startup while waiting on Japan Engineering Visa

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET), Assistant Language Teacher (ALT)

Miyagi, Japan

July 2004 – July 2007

3 years 1 month

• Coached students through super regional finals of the All Japan English Speech Contest

Fifth Third Bancorp, System Analyst III

USA

July 2002 – July 2004

2 years 1 month

• Created repeatable server and app installs via App RPMs and Kickstart to migrate Milwaukee WI Data Center to Grand Rapids, MI

• Designed and built one-click installer/uninstallers for internal applications

• Became co-network/security administrator of the Milwaukee WI Network

• Trained local development staff on both CVS and Clear Case

Universal Savings Bank, Programmer/Intern

USA

Jun 2000 - Sep 2001

• Developed reporting systems for Customer Service using PHP, PERL, and C from MySQL and Tandem Non-Stop SQL database sources

• Deployed and administrated application servers on Windows 2000 and Linux

M2 Technical Services (for Universal Savings Bank), Temporary Staff

USA

May 1999 – Aug 1999

4 months

• Managed support operations including client billing and basic scripting

• Trained and supervised full-time replacement

Bradley University Technology Service Center, Helpdesk Technician

USA

Aug 1997 – May 2000

2 years 10 months

• Unix and Windows phone/walk-up support technician

Education

Bradley University, Computer Science

BS

Illinois, USA

Aug 1997 – May 2001

• 3.3 GPA (3.6 Major GPA). Dean's list from Spring 1998

• First place in Bradley's Robotic automation tournament

• Study Abroad: University of Malta (Sep 2000

• Jan 2001)

Skills

Physical Infra, OS and Middleware: Linux, Kerberos, Firewalls, F5, A10, DNS, TCP and Multicast Networking, Corvil, Cisco IOS, Arista EOS, Solarflare/Exablaze/Mellanox, Infoblox, Veritas VCS, AFS

Performance: Testing combinations of software and hardware including NICs, FPGA, GPU, kernel, BIOS settings

Analytics and Data: NiFi, Kafka, Python (Pandas, Jupyter), Splunk, Grafana

Automation and Deployment: Ansible, Bash, Nomad, Autosys

Security: CIS+ Benchmark, Qualys, Zeek, Red Team Pen Tests

Innovation

• Automated Global Firewall Management Platform

• Introduced Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling at scale

• DMZ/Control design for high-risk/complexity jurisdictions

• Built application discovery/configuration parser/normalize for plant management tooling

• Multi-Year Replatforming Architect: Federated Server Build System with industry-standard software distribution

• Application Orchestration: Federated App Scheduling replacement with inhouse system and Nomad

Patents

• 2025: Granular Network Segmentation - U.S. Patent No. US12284157B1

Home Lab

• Light ML/AI for Home Automation

• Private Home Automation with custom firmware (Tasmota, Zigbee, Thingio)

• Multi-Point VPN using Wireguard including VPN Phone Home with GCP/AWS and Digital Ocean

• Debian RPI Fleet / UTM Image Builder

Languages

English: Native

Japanese: Speaking/Reading Fluency

French: Reading