Sayantan Chowdhury

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • 17+ years in enterprise software development.
  • Expertise in financial systems and API management.
  • Proven leadership in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and Cloud Computing with a strong focus on API development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Delivery

Other Skills

.NetBondsCommunicationConvertible BondsCore JavaDerivativesDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsEquitiesFull stackGrowing TeamsHedge FundsJavaJavaScriptLow Latency

About

* 17+ years of experience shipping enterprise software in various domains with - 7+ years in large scale distributed platforms and critical systems - 5+ years of web development - 9+ years of experience developing financial systems in Investment Banking and Hedge Funds * 6+ years of leadership experience - building teams, planning, designing, and delivering large projects spanning multiple engineers/teams * Passionate for innovation and talent growth - managed and mentored tech leads and managers * Recognized top performer * Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills * Experience of working on business critical projects requiring high accuracy and low turnaround time Specialties * Outstanding cross-functional collaboration skills * Coaching, mentoring & managing engineers, tech leads and managers * Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams. * Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. And of course, having fun too! Programming languages & Tools: Core Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, React Native, Android development, MS SQL Server, Sybase, MS Office Finance: Hedge Funds, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Equities, Treasury Operations, automating margin agreements involving complex financial instruments with CounterParties (Margin Calculators), expertise in Margin Risk Calculation/Management, Stress & Rule Based Margining, Convertible Arbitrage and Volatility Arbitrage strategies

Experience

Google

Engineering Leader

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Boot strapped and growing Google's API and Foundation Services Platform India Org and engineering.
  • Leading Google's API Experience by reliable config orchestration for the AI-First Google Cloud : Provide a unified, user-centric experience for building, testing, consuming, and operating APIs.
  • Leading modernization of GCP's versioning architecture for APIs
API DevelopmentTechnical DesignProblem SolvingTechnical Leadership

Uber

Engineering Leader

Aug 2023Apr 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Lead the Edge API Gateway platform team, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform, a fully-managed end to end API Gateway Solution that enables engineers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs & Streaming end-points at any scale (1.5M RPS, 54K cores, 99.99% availability, 0.11 cents/trip) . It serves for all the Uber Mobile App Integrations, External API integrations and streaming data integrations with backend services.
  • The services managed by the Edge Platform team are some of the most critical services that Uber business relies on to run securely and efficiently. 1000s of engineers across all the different Uber Product teams use our platform on a daily basis for creating and updating the API endpoints that are exposed to the outside world.
React.jsTypeScriptAPI DevelopmentOperational ExcellenceTechnical Leadership

Indeed.com

Engineering Manager

Mar 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Singapore

  • Built pre-v1 education marketplace for different job seeker archetypes which aims to help job seekers make career transitions through education(certifications/licenses/courses/skills). Efforts included
  • Leading and supporting talented geo-diverse engineers, helping with HLD, reviews, product vision
  • Building marketplace with relevant search and engaging but meaningful experience using latest tech stack
  • Closely working with PM, Design, leadership, stakeholders
  • Coaching, mentoring, growing engineers and leads
  • Technologies: Full stack, Java, microservices, gRPC, federated GRAPHQL, NextJS/TS, Elastic/Lucene, Datadog, Proctor A/B.
Problem SolvingTechnical DesignGrowing TeamsProduct DeliveryTechnical Leadership

Microsoft

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Feb 2022 · 6 mos

  • Bing Travel
  • Being a V0 project, aims to create best-of-web travel experiences to customers across different form factors like desktop and mobile while leveraging MS’s strength in Desktop for entry points and SERP for customised engaging Travel answers.
  • Directly responsible for hiring, coaching and actively provided technical leadership through a hyper growth phase
  • Influenced and collaborated extensively with backend, data science, infra teams, PMs and designers to constantly innovate and deliver at a fast pace
  • Building high performing team in quick time by actively building capability and conditions for success
  • Influenced and credited for building robust systems and process like zero downtime deployment, behavioral and business metrics, system monitoring and diagnostics
  • Notable impact on web performance and established high bars
  • Scaled to 300+ countries and 24+ top languages to make truly global product and upscale traffic
  • Technologies: TypeScript, ReactJS, Redux, Webpack,, .Net, real time streaming, 360 deg video and imagery, reusable web components, Microservices, large scale distributed systems
Problem SolvingTechnical DesignGrowing TeamsProduct DeliveryTechnical Leadership

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Fluid framework
  • Lead a high caliber team on a cutting edge Collab technology called Fluid Framework. Fluid aims to provide buttery smooth cloud Collab experience. Efforts include hiring and team setup from ground up for a pre- v1 project. Setting up the team for success by working with partners, PMs and stakeholders while pitching crucial tech leadership and designs to aide continuous progress in a startup mode. Committed to a low operational burden by designing for it. Initiated and successfully lead complex rearchitecting through meticulous planning and deep technical leadership
  • Awarded as a star leader in a short span for driving clarity by working with partners in a fast changing environment and also leading engineers on a new technology
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Problem SolvingTechnical DesignGrowing TeamsProduct DeliveryTechnical Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Office mobile shared
  • Development and tech leadership to the mission critical shared layer for Office applications that power the Office android apps. Currently, each product enjoys 500+ million downloads and a consistently high rating of 4.5+
  • R&D of newer tech to scale Office apps keeping cross-platform design in mind
  • Recognized as a top performer while evoking high energy, enthusiasm and fun
Problem SolvingTechnical Design

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Associate Vice President

Apr 2015Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Lead the Sales & Trading team in Bangalore office for Equity Derivative business
  • Lead Real time automated quotation /pricing team of the Sales&Trading applications
  • Lead the OTC Equities Derivatives Trade and Event capture project
  • Specifically handled the outbound process and the real time reg reporting to GTR for Equity derivatives trading
Problem SolvingTechnical DesignProduct Delivery

Morgan stanley

Senior Manager

Aug 2014Mar 2015 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Problem SolvingTechnical Design

Citi

Manager

Jun 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Technical Design

D. e. shaw & co.

2 roles

Senior Member - Information Technology

Jan 2011May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Problem Solving

Member - Information Technology

Jun 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Education

Jadavpur University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Information Technology

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Schooling: Mathematics

Jan 2002Jan 2004

D.A.V Public School

Schooling

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