I'm an enterprise architect (nice fluffy title) at an major online brokerage in the NYC area. I work extensively with Java/JEE, particularly in the context of Service Oriented Architecture. I also work with financial technology, particular market data systems, and various forms of computational analytics.
My educational background is in Continental philosophy and literary and critical theory, which I studied at New York University where I had the privilege of seeing Jacques Derrida and Harold Bloom in action.