Bobby Martin
Leveraging technology to optimize investment decision-making across asset classes.
Experience
Thrivent Financial
May 2022 - present
Senior Application Engineer
Systematic Alpha Quant Team
- Author and maintainer of internal R package platform for quantitative factor building and analysis.
- Optimized factor calculation/export by over 500% compared to S&P's ClariFI Desktop application.
- Designed and architected factor definitions and transformations as code for greater flexibility.
- Engineered an analytic warehouse, centralizing over 12,000 point-in-time company metrics.
- Develop quantitative factors for use within the Systematic Alpha team's proprietary models.
- Maintain environments, deployments, and processing in AWS.
- Publish reports, dashboards, and web apps for portfolio analysis and attribution.
Jan. 2020 - May 2022
Application Engineer
Investments Data Hub Team
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline for MarkitEDM deploys increasing migrations by over 350%.
- Developed thriventprivateinvestments.com on AWS with S3 and CloudFront.
May 2018- Jan. 2020
Associate Application Engineer
Back Office Support Team
- Maintained critical internal/vendor systems for post-trade activity and reporting.
- Architected Power BI workspace implementation enabling self-service analytics.
City of St. Paul
2017 - 2018
Web Assistant Intern
- Digitized property inspection process with custom Microsoft PowerApp.
- Leveraged Drupal, HTML/SCSS, and GIT to improve stpaul.gov.
St. Thomas
2015 - 2018
Teacher's Assistant
Mary Daugherty, CFA. Senior Fellow in Applied Finance
- Analyzed Bloomberg data on over 200 companies for foreign asset tax implications.
2014 - 2018
Web Developer & Managing Intern
- Created websites and email campaigns for over 80 departments.
Education
University of St. Thomas (MN)
Class of 2018
Political Science & Information Systems Double major
Honors
- Full scholarship recipient.
- Dean's List 6 semesters.
- H.W. Ross Political Science Scholarship.
Leadership
- VP of Public Relations, Student Government.
- President, Sigma Chi Fraternity.
- Sophomore Class Senator, Student Government.
Accomplishments
Boy Scouts of America
- Eagle Scout, 2014.
- Assistant Scoutmaster, 2018.
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Product Owner.
- Bloomberg Market Concepts.
- Markit EDM Advanced Training.
Thrivent Leadership Training
- 1/30 selected for inaugural program.
Skills & Technologies
Programming & Development
- R / Python
- Package Development
- Websites (Shiny, Astro, Django)
- Containerization (Docker)
Data Engineering & Systems
- Analytic Processing
- Data Modeling (OLTP, OLAP)
- Query Optimization
- Data Pipelines (ETL, ELT)
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, Bedrock)
- IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
DevOps & Automation
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Secrets Management