Alpha Ngwenya

Software Engineer

Goldman Sachs•  June 2021 - August 2021

• Member of the production runtime team focused on firm product development, resiliency testing and User experience • Backend developer using Spring Boot, Mavin, GitLab, K8S and Java to build Rest APIs that test firm risk and resiliency • Migrate monolithic app to microservice architecture using Kubernetes for deployment and utilizing testing JUnit 5 for testing

Securities Trading Analyst

Goldman Sachs•  July 2019 - August 2020

• Managed USA Synthetic Product Group functions and ensured Risk vs Ledger reconciliations are conducted effectively • Mitigated over USD 50 Million trading risk daily, by investigating risk discrepancies and escalating to actionable teams • Reduced 10% of SPG aged Risk vs Ledger exceptions by automating the manual workflow process using the Alteryx tool • Prevented approx. USD 1.3 Million firm PnL by exposing and escalating FTT tax wrongly processed in firm books • Used SQL and R to create a daily SPG exception report sent to Managing Directors for daily firm risk and ledger updates

Operations and Trading Analyst

Libra Group•  June 2018 - August 2018

• Libra Group is a renowned holding company operating in six different industries and available in 30 countries worldwide • Valuated firm client Caledonia and assessed their 7 million USD proposed expansion into the Zimbabwe mining sector • Used R to Produce weekly reports focused on emerging markets to inform clients in their trading decisions and investments • Pitched in the Libra entrepreneurship competition and was one of the three finalists out of over 50 competition participants

Product Manager

EdPlus•  January 2017 - July 2017

• Global education platform with over 15,000 college student users from mostly America, Canada and Sub Sahara Africa • Designed and implemented platform filters that monitor content appropriateness thus reducing firm reputational risk • Analyzed user retention and collected feedback which was used for designing affiliate groups feature on the platform • Lead a team of three SWE designing the android mobile version of the platform to increase platform adoption in Africa

Austin Peay State University

Computer Science, MS•  August 2020 - Present

Computer Science and Quantitative Methods