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David Myers

Product Owner — API Platforms & Middleware

Summary

I'm a Product Owner with 10+ years delivering API-driven platforms and middleware across fintech and digital banking. I own the integration layer: REST and GraphQL contracts, schemas, and auth flows. I lead migrations off legacy vendor platforms without breaking what customers rely on. I bring the technical depth of a former business analyst, integration specialist, and platform modernizer to every product decision.

Experience

Product Owner — Middleware

Oct 2024 — Present

SMBC · Jenius Bank · Remote

  • Own API product strategy for middleware services connecting digital channels to core banking platforms.
  • Authored requirements and technical specs for 15+ REST and GraphQL APIs covering account linking, transfers, and autopay.
  • Led online banking modernization from FIS Digital One to a proprietary in-house platform while holding feature parity across web and mobile.
  • Integrated internal services with FIS and MX for external account aggregation, expanding customer financial data visibility.
  • Standardized API documentation with Swagger and Apollo across three development teams.

Product Owner / Scrum Master

Aug 2021 — Jun 2024

Broadridge Financial Services · Raleigh, NC

  • Merged two trust platforms and moved integrations from file-based interfaces to a modern API architecture.
  • Transformed a waterfall team to Agile, increasing delivery efficiency by 30% and holding an 80% sprint velocity.
  • Owned and prioritized backlogs by business value; authored API requirements and detailed user stories.
  • Led a multi-year UI upgrade for the trust business, improving usability and client satisfaction.

Business Analyst III — Digital Account Opening

Aug 2019 — Aug 2021

First Citizens Bank · Raleigh, NC

  • Integrated digital account opening with Q2 Online Banking via bi-directional API flows, reducing application completion time by 50%.
  • Designed and launched a new credit card online application that tripled customer volumes.
  • Designed customer journeys, service calls, and wireframes for checking, savings, and credit card applications.
  • Implemented LexisNexis ThreatMetrix and Fraudpoint to reduce online fraud; mentored new business analysts.

AVP — Lead Business Functional Analyst

Sep 2015 — Aug 2019

Deutsche Bank Global Technology · Cary, NC

  • Delivered a Brexit-compliant equities trading platform within a 6-month regulatory deadline, including full data mapping of US equity trades to the back-office settlement system.
  • Mapped file-based trade processing to REST API calls, resolving production performance issues under rising trade volume.
  • Built a Cucumber black-box testing service that cut platform upgrade cycles from six months to weeks.
  • Standardized requirements processes and implemented JAMA across multiple delivery teams.

AVP / Associate — Business Analyst

Mar 2011 — Sep 2015

Deutsche Bank AG · Jacksonville, FL

  • Led a multi-year cost basis regulatory implementation across asset classes, with custom reporting for hedge fund clients.
  • Partnered with Group Tax and Deloitte to mitigate IRS audit risk, driving roughly $800K in cost avoidance.
  • Built a new 1099 process that eliminated regulatory errors and reduced operational exposure.
  • Designed automated specific-lot election and corporate-actions reconciliation workflows for tax accuracy.

Selected Projects

printrate.io

printrate.io

Live web app · Python, LLM classification, statistical modeling

  • Built a scorecard that grades stock-picking accounts on real forward returns, classifying ticker calls with an LLM and scoring them against sector benchmarks with empirical-Bayes shrinkage and false-discovery-rate correction for statistically honest rankings.

Job Radar

github.com/devpyle

Open source · Python, Flask, Claude API

  • Built an AI job-search engine that queries 13+ job APIs and ATS platforms twice daily, rates each posting with an LLM, dedupes across runs, and tracks applications through a Kanban dashboard with fit analysis and tailored resume and cover-letter generation.

Polymarket Trading Bot

private

Trading system · Python, Go, PostgreSQL, machine learning

  • Built an automated prediction-market trading system with market-making and directional bots, a real-time data pipeline, and a Go execution gate; led quantitative signal discovery and machine-learning model training through a shadow-to-live promotion pipeline.

Skills

API & Integration

REST & GraphQL design, endpoint & schema specs, auth flows, Swagger / OpenAPI, Apollo, Azure APIM, Postman

Banking Platforms

FIS Digital One / MBP, Q2 Online Banking, MX, Okta (CIAM), LexisNexis ThreatMetrix, Fraudpoint

Product & Agile

Product Owner, Scrum Master, backlog & roadmap, user stories & acceptance criteria, stakeholder alignment

Tools

JIRA, Confluence, JAMA, GitHub, Bitbucket, Copilot, SQL / MS SQL Server, Cucumber, TeamCity, Splunk, LucidChart

Domain

Middleware & API platforms, platform migrations, digital onboarding, equities & post-trade settlement, regulatory delivery

Education

Global MBA & MS, International Management
University of North Florida · Cologne University of Applied Sciences · University of Warsaw — Cum Laude

2009 — 2010

BBA, Accounting
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL · Minor in Business Administration

2005 — 2008