Sachin Kumar

DevOps Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands17 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in supporting Front Office Trading Applications.
  • Proficient in enhancing observability with modern tools.
  • Successful in driving automation and reducing operational toil.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional specializing in SRE and DevOps for trading systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

ResiliencyTrade SupportService DeliveryOperational Excellence

Other Skills

24x7 Production SupportAutosysBusiness AnalysisConsultingDatabase DesignDatabasesDevOpsGitIT ManagementIT OperationsITILIncident ManagementInvestment BankingJavaJava Applications

About

I am a seasoned professional with extensive experience spanning various roles such as Production Support Manager/Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and DevOps Engineer, primarily within the realms of Investment Banks and High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms. Key Highlights of my expertise include: - Profound expertise in supporting Front Office Applications (Trading Applications), adept in FIX protocol, Order Management Systems. - Proficient in enhancing end-to-end observability utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and robust instrumentation techniques. - Skilled in designing Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budget metrics in collaboration with business stakeholders, and effectively visualizing them on Grafana dashboards. - Specialized in bolstering Resilience, Availability, Reliability, and reducing Latency through meticulous Change Management, performance optimization, emergency response strategies, and proactive capacity planning across diverse application landscapes. - Expertise lies in nurturing and empowering efficient SRE teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning. - Demonstrated success in driving automation initiatives and mitigating toil (the manual, repetitive tasks), overcoming obstacles with innovative and resilient solutions. - Possess a keen appetite for embracing change and mastering emerging tools and technologies. IT Skills: AWS, EC2, Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes, Linux Systems & Shell Scripting, Python, Panda, Flask, MQ, Kafta CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Monitoring & Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, Geneos, Splunk Database : (SQL, PL/SQL) DB2, Sybase, Oracle, Informix Scheduling tools like Autosys, Ctrl-M Vendor Management/offshoring, statistics and analytics.

Experience

Optiver

Application Engineer

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

ResiliencyStakeholder RelationsTrade SupportPython (Programming Language)Operational ExcellenceTroubleshooting+2

Morgan stanley

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Sep 2018May 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ResiliencyGitStakeholder RelationsPython (Programming Language)Operational ExcellenceTroubleshooting+5

Consultant

Nov 2009Dec 2015 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Glasgow, United Kingdom

  • Project : Application and Production support for PWM buisness of Morgan Stanley across various geography, that involved Front Office application Support, Data Reporting, Batch Support, Buisness User support , Incident Management, Release and change Management.
ResiliencyStakeholder RelationsOperational ExcellenceTroubleshootingStrategic Thinking

Deutsche bank

Assistant Vice President

Dec 2015Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked as Technology Environment Manager for Global Payments Application used in Deutsche Bank, Led the automation strategy within the projects to deliver maximum output through minimal manual intervention. Led the designing of the portal to support critical operations and provide governance to the stakeholders alongside release management, deployment, non-prod environment provisioning and Support to facilitate test and UAT cycles.
  • Technologies Involved: SQL, UNIX/LINUX, Python, Oracle Weblogic, Java Applications
ResiliencyStakeholder RelationsOperational ExcellenceTroubleshootingKey Performance IndicatorsStrategic Thinking+5

Headstrong

Principal Consultant

Nov 2009Dec 2015 · 6 yrs 1 mo · India, Hong Kong, London, Glasgow

  • Worked for Client Morgan Stanley as Application Production Support Consultant.
ResiliencyStakeholder RelationsOperational ExcellenceKey Performance IndicatorsStrategic Thinking

Sopra group

Software Engineer

Dec 2008Nov 2009 · 11 mos

  • Worked as a Developer for the Migration and Re-engineering of Sybase based CIS system to Oracle base CIS System.
  • Highlights
  • Core member of ‘Common Engine’ dev team module which is a backbone of the CIS project. This engine was responsible for running all the IN & OUT gateways.
  • Involved for functional design, technical design, build, testing and delivery of all the modules.
  • Involved in the new architecture of the project with setting up the prototype.
  • Driven the efforts for creation of functional, technical, requirement & database architecture document for the project
  • Extensively involved in the designing of the CIS Reengineering system from Sybase to Oracle.

Education

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

B.E. — Instrumentation & Control

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