Daniel Pailes-friedman
Vice President Senior Developer at Morgan Stanley
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Pailes-Friedman is a seasoned senior developer and vice president with over two decades of hands-on experience building large-scale Java/J2EE and .NET systems in the financial services sector. He has led development and production support at major institutions including Morgan Stanley, AllianceBernstein, and UBS, consistently bridging technical design with stakeholder-facing roles such as portfolio managers and trading teams. A strong practitioner of object-oriented analysis, design patterns, and T-SQL, he combines deep backend expertise with a proactive, creative problem-solving approach. His background includes an uncommon blend of formal art education (BFA) and a master's in computer science, which informs a pragmatic yet design-minded engineering style. Although his GitHub points to a nontraditional bio link, his career demonstrates steady delivery on mission-critical trading and research platforms. Based in New York, he excels both as an individual contributor and as a technical leader driving full lifecycle development.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts at University of MichiganBachelor Fine Arts, Bachelor Fine Arts at Pratt InstituteMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Pace University
Github Skills (79)
discord10
youtube9
video-library9
crypto9
chatbot9
pdf-rendering9
telegram9
agentic9
state-space9
swarm9
slack9
ai8
operating-system8
zenodo8
generative-model8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
docxology/template
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
GitHub template for reproducible research repos — two-layer Python 3.10+/uv monorepo splitting generic infrastructure from per-project code, with pytest coverage gates (60% infra, 90% projects), a 16-stage build pipeline, markdown-to-PDF rendering via pandoc/LaTeX, and 25 canonical exemplars.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 241 pushes in 11 months
build-pipelineslatexmarkdownmonorepopandoc
ActiveInferenceInstitute/CEREBRUM
Apr 2025 - Mar 2026
CEREBRUM: Case-Enabled Reasoning Engine with Bayesian Representations for Unified Modeling
Contributions:1 release, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
bayesianactive-inferencebayesian-inferencecase-based-reasoningcognitive-modeling
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