Jun 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions.
• Headhunted to lead software development teams in a global technology transformation and unification programme and provide architecture, design and implementation guidance to achieve effective and efficient software development and delivery.
• Achievements:
• Restructured a failing Scrum process to achieve over 90% increase in productivity and 30% reduction in defect rates on TradeServ, a cloud (AWS) based microservices platform.
• Built and organised global cross functional teams in London, Kiev, Gurgaon and New York into a high performance technology organisation of over 90 developers.
• Partnered with operations and infrastructure on successful client engagements to provide diverse integration options specific to their needs and constraints.
• Created synergy between development, QA and product management to streamline the pipeline of deliverables resulting in efficiency and economy of development effort.
• Organised team’s DevOps process to enable promotion of builds from development at pace leading to accelerated deliveries and continuous improvement.
• Optimised budget allocations by analysing spending alternatives to economically achieve the desired capability in technology and talent.
• Led the assessment of impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) on all platforms in the Processing Division and advised platform owners and product management on compliance.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) is a leading global investment firm specializing in wealth management, investment banking and sales and trading services.
• Internally transferred to lead a global technology team to renovate equities pre-trade services and to support operation of existing technology.
• Project initiatives:
• With a strong focus on optimal resource utilisation globally, organised sprints to incrementally deliver the new system and maintain existing services to support BAU (Business As Usual) activities.
• Developed architectural guidelines and prescribed practices to optimize development efficiency and economy while maintaining a strong attention on quality.
• Mentored and coached team members and conducted weekly global cross platform training sessions to improve technical skills of developers in London, New York and Mumbai.

Aug 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Internally transferred to develop and commission an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives.
• Key deliverables:
• Designed and implemented front end and server side frameworks and libraries to transparently integrate trading applications to the electronic trading infrastructure for credit derivatives.
• Developed the architecture of a real-time position keeping service. This architecture was flexible enough to accommodate evolving business requirements through out the development cycle.
• Delivered an extensible utility to control communication to external venues in case of emergencies. This includes visual monitors to display alerts and system state to minimise risks to the business.
• Developed processes and tools to reduce testing effort, improve quality assurance and lower risk of defects thus accelerating releases. Mentored and coached staff to use these systems effectively.

Nov 2010 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Recruited to develop and extend applications on Morgan Stanley's power and gas trading platform.
• Role highlights:
• Automated a number of power, gas and emissions trading business operations to simplify associated business processes, provide greater visibility and reduce overheads by 70%.
• Developed a system to calculate trade volumes for expiring future trades and book corresponding takedown trades automatically thus reducing the corresponding operational overhead on business.
• Enhanced the STP (Straight Through Processing) infrastructure for EMEA power, gas, emissions and freight trading by extending trade and market data feeds and trade capture applications.

Jan 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• EDF Trading is a leader in the international wholesale energy markets. It manages a large portfolio of assets which give it the ability to source, supply, transport, store, blend and convert physical commodities around the world.
• Hired to extend and maintain Company's ETRM (Energy Trading and Risk Management) technology ecosystem focusing on trade capture, systems integration and post-trade confirmations.
• Notable contributions:
• Developed FIX (Financial Information Exchange) adapters to interface ICE (Inter-continental Exchange) to the Firm's STP (Straight Through Processing) infrastructure reducing risk of errors in trade capture.
• Designed and implemented a distributed middleware and a multi-technology framework to integrate pricing models to the ETRM system enhancing its resilience, extensibility and scalability.

Oct 2006 – Jan 2007 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Merrill Lynch was a global investment firm which was acquired by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in January 2009.
• Head hunted to design and implement components for messaging systems used to integrate diverse financial information systems.
• Key deliverable:
• Developed a ETL (Extract Transform Load) framework to aggregate configuration of interfaces and gateways of the messaging infrastructure from diverse repositories into a cohesive SQL database.

Apr 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos · Cranfield, UK

• FKI Logistex, currently known as Logistex, was a leading manufacturer of material handling solutions and warehouse control systems (WCS).
• Recruited to implement vertical components of FKI Logistex's Warehouse Control System core product. These included back-end services in C and C++ and feature-rich Java Swing based GUI.

Aug 2004 – Apr 2005 · 8 mos · Loughborough, UK

• High Speed Networks (HSN) Research Group has been performing research in communication networks, networked applications and distributed systems for over 25 years.
• Joined the group to operate, maintain and upgrade the network performance monitoring infrastructure of British Telecom´s SMDS wide area network in its final year of service.
• Principal contributions:
• Produced periodic network performance reports on statistics calculated from the intrusively monitored network traffic and advised BT on SLA compliance, performance effects and suspected faults.
• Performed decommissioning of the monitoring system at the end of a decade long programme. Uninstalled the monitors, archived monitored data and reports, distributed the kit between project participants and re-purposed the retained infrastructure for use within HSN.
• Also performed research in network performance monitoring systems and developed prototype database applications for efficiently calculating statistical summaries on network performance.

Sep 2003 – Aug 2004 · 11 mos · Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

• Ittihad University (IU) is a private university in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), United Arab Emirates.
• Contracted to establish microprocessor and microcontroller laboratories as part of the Computer Engineering department's lab infrastructure.
• Role highlights:
• Provided the faculty a framework for establishing and operating the digital microelectronics lab. Prepared and taught computer engineering and computer science undergraduate courses.

Oct 2002 – Aug 2003 · 10 mos · Islamabad, Pakistan

• Communications Enabling Technologies was a San Jose based technology start-up specialising in telecommunications chip design and telecommunications systems implementation.
• Joined the Firm after a part-time consultancy role from February 2000 to manage complete life cycles of technology projects including end user support, client negotiations and delivery settlements.

Aug 2001 – Oct 2002 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Project Vision was Pakistan Air Force's drive to modernise Pakistan's air defence command and control infrastructure.
• Transferred to lead the development of real-time communication protocols to integrate radars and command centres of the national air defence infrastructure.
• Key achievements:
• Led the development of networking components using COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) computers to interface a diverse range of air defence assets.
• Advised on the installation of these components over a national telecommunications backbone to achieve a ubiquitous and a resilient military air traffic monitoring and management service.

Dec 1989 – Aug 2001 · 11 yrs 8 mos

• Pakistan Air Force is the branch of Defence Forces of Pakistan that is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to Pakistan Army and Pakistan Navy.
• Joined the service after the completion of graduate training.
• Role highlights:
• Led a team of technicians on a programme to enhance the maintenance efficiency and economy of a weapon system.
• Achieved higher operational availability of assets through a greater transparency in maintenance processes, efficient testing and effective fault diagnosis leading to a reduction in maintenance cycles.