Mr. Bryan Richards is currently Director of Portfolio Construction & Management Engineering. In this role, he leads engineering for the FactSet Programmatic Environment. He joined FactSet in 2005 and has held several key engineering positions across the company. Prior to this initiative, Mr. Richards provided engineering direction focusing on quant workflows. Before this, Mr. Richards worked on several analytics applications and APIs including those for Portfolio Analytics and SPAR. Previously he also worked on FactSet technical infrastructure. Mr. Richards earned a bachelor’s in computer science from Hunter College and holds the Financial Data Professional certification designation