Esteriana Haskasa

Mobile: +44 751 265 1243

E-mail: esteriana.haskasa@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/esteriana-haskasa

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Programming Languages – main: Java other: ASP.NET, C#, PHP, C++, Pascal, And JavaScript
Java/Web/Other Technology – main: JMS(Topic, Queues- WebSphere MQ) , TIBCO (RV – Market Data Update,
EMS – Order and Data Execution), FIX Protocol, JMX, Informatica UMP , TCP/IP, Routing, Protocol
Buffers(ProtoBuf), Junit, Mockito, Guava, Puppet, Apache Zooekeper, XML, JAXB, FasterXML/Jackson, XPath,
Putty, Gitbash, Cygwin other: JDBC, Beans, Hibernate (Open source ORM framework), Web Services, Web
Processing Service (WPS), AJAX, POJO Library, SOA, REST, SOAP, XSD, , XSL, XSLT, HTML.
Java Frameworks – main: Google Guice other: SPRING
Version Control – main: GIT, SVN other: TFS
IDE – main: IntelliJ IDEA 2018 other: Eclipse, MS Visual Studio 2013/2015, NetBeans, Borland C++ Builder
Databases – main: KDB other: MS SQL Server 2000-2012, MySQL
Operating Systems– main: UNIX, Windows other: Windows Server 2003/2008
Software Modelling Language: UML, Visio

FINANCIAL EXPERTISE
Trading concepts – Liquidity, Volatility, Instruments (Commodities-PM[Precious Metal], Forex-Foreign Exchange
Market-FX)
FX Concepts – Asset Class(equities, fixed income, cash equivalents/money market instruments), Forex(FX) Quotes,
FX Cash, FX Derivatives, Currency Pairs(Major, Minor, Exotics), Base/Counter Currency, Bid/ Ask Price, Spread(pips,
points, ticks), Margin, Leverage, Offshore/ Onshore Currencies, Market Data Update, Order Execution.
FX Contracts – FX Spot, FX Forward, FX Swap, FX NDF (Non Delivery Forward), FX Futures, FX Options/Vanilla
FX Order Types – Market Order, Limit Entry Order, Stop Entry Order, Stop Loss Order, Immediate Order, Good `Till
Cancelled (GTC) Order, Good for the Day (GFD) Order

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
December 2018 – Currently
Position: IT Software Engineer
Employer: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., https://www.jpmorganchase.com/
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Software development project responsibilities:
• Back-end functional development using Java 8, Spring, Hibernate and Maven.
• Working with other feature of the project: Jenkins (Continuous Integration), Jules, Sonatype Nexus
(Repository management), GIT (Software versioning), Confluence, Jira.
• Improving/ Refactoring the source current code
• Adding Junit and integration tests
• Assist with 3nd line support as necessary and providing bug fixing for UAT environment

September 2017 – December 2018

Position: IT Software Engineer
Employer: UBS Business Solutions Poland Sp.z, https://www.ubs.com/
Location: Krakow, Poland
Software development project responsibilities:
• Work with other team members to ensure high-quality software development in line with the agreed
strategic approach
• Contribute to the overall design and development of real-time solutions for FX Trading, Booking, and
Pricing
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 • Identify business, technology and people risks associated with a solution. Contributing to both urgent and
critical project issues resolution.
• Back-end functional development using Java 8 , Google Guice and Maven. Using reactive programming in
Java 8.
• Perform initial integration testing of own work to ensure a complete and correct solution in addition to
assisting official support and test teams in performing their functions
• Integration/BDD testing and TDD for the functional developed code. Developing unit testing using Junit,
Mockito, EasyMock. Executing test cases and fixing bugs through unit testing.
• Integrating the module with other modules and deploying them on UNIX using Puppet by using Putty
• Working with other feature of the project: TeamCity (Continuous Integration), Sonatype Nexus (Repository
management), Sonar (Continuous Code Quality) SVN, GIT (Software versioning), Confluence, Jira (Kanban
Board).
• Project scope maintenance and fixing bugs/defects reported in JIRA
• Working in Agile environments. The project team runs on agile basis -Scrum methodology/Kanban.
Attending stand-up meetings.
• Working in a multicultural international team
• Constantly participating and self-studying FX trading concepts.
• Constantly incorporating more senior peers experience.
• Assist with 3nd line support as necessary

November 2014 – August 2017

Position: Software engineer
Employer: EPAM Systems (Poland) sp. z o.o, http://www.epam.com
Location: Krakow, Poland
As an Epam outsourcing developer I was assigned to
Project: Foreign Exchange Liquidity Management (FX Trading)
Position: Java Developer
Company: UBS, https://www.ubs.com
Main responsibilities:
• Back-end Developer oriented in JAVA (PostgreSQL, Spring Data JPA, REST controllers)
• Participate in corporate trainings about TDD and Jasmine
• Develop and execute self-learning plan for investment banking – related technologies
Main Technologies:
• JAVA
• AngularJS
• Junit, Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Selenium, Serenity (Thucydides), JBehave/BDD
• Spring (MVC, REST, Security)
• Hibernate
• RabbitMQ
• Activiti/BPMN

July 2011 – November 2014

Position: Software Developer
Employer: Raiffeisen Bank Albania, http://www.raiffeisen.al
Location: Tirana, Albania

September 2011 – May 2015

Position: Lecturer
Employer: University "Aleksander Xhuvani", http://uniel.edu.al
Location: Elbasan, Albania

March 2011 – October 2014

Position: Lecture Associate
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 Employer: Polytechnic University of Tirana, http://www.upt.al
Location: Tirana, Albania

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

April 2013-Present PhD Candidate in Computer Software Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana,
Albania
July 2010 Master’s degree in Computer Sciences, Tirana University, Albania
September 2008 Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Tirana University, Albania
March 2007-May 2007 On job training at Tirana Bank corporate internal applications and data warehouse

LANGUAGES
Albanian Native Language
English Full working proficiency
Italian Full working proficiency
French Full working proficiency
Spanish/Portuguese Limited working proficiency

IT CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
Talk: "How do Web sites affect the development of tourism in Albania"
Conference: “The role of information technology in the Albanian society" Albania, June 2010
Talk: "The influence of WEKA (http://www.weka.net.nz/) Workbench in information processing"
Conference: "1st International Symposium on Computing in Informatics and Mathematics” Albania, June 2011
Talk: “The impact of Data mining in economy, especially in the Albanian Economy"
Conference: "Information Systems Technologies and their importance in the economic development” June 2011
Talk: “The impact of Genetic Algorithms in Economy: A case study"
Conference: "Information Systems and Technology Innovations: Their application in economy" Albania, June 2012
Talk: “Genetic Algorithm’s impact in Economy"
Conference: "7th annual international meeting of Alb-Science Institute” Skopje, Macedonia, 29-31 August 2012.
Conference: “Research and Education challenges towards the future” Albania, March 2013
Talk: “Classification of Life Insurance Database with SPSS” Albania, May 2013

PUBLICATIONS
Joint venture research papers appeared in the following post-conference books:
“The role of information technology in the Albanian society”, July 2010
"Information Systems and Technologies and their importance in the economic development”, June 2011
“1st International Symposium on Computing in Informatics and Mathematics (ISCIM 2011)”, June 2011
“Information Systems and Technology Innovations: Their application in economy”, June 2012
“Information Systems and Technology Innovations: the New Paradigm for a Smarter Economy", June 2016
“Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems: The 10th International Conference on Intelligent
Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2018) “, September 2018 -Bratislava, Slovakia

HOBBIES
Latin dancing (Salsa Bachata) Amateur.
Passionate about quantum physics and abstract painting.
Continuously exploring Buddhism and Philosophy theories.
Highly interested in classical ballet and piano music.

REFERENCES
Available upon request