Sundeep Gupta — CTO

Production Engineering - Technical Project & Systems Manager April 16, present Tower Research Capital India Markets Pvt Ltd. Responsibilities: Project Management: Manage end-to-end delivery of co-location infrastructure for new Business opportunities Work with Business Management on new markets opportunities and prepare Infrastructure , co-locations for low latency trading. Working along with Trading & Core Engineering Teams, gathering requirements, planning, coordination and getting them implemented in production. Systems Deployment and Operations: Design, build, tune and maintain mission-critical low latency. Managing Systems Unix Team and supporting 4000+ servers across APAC/EMEA/AMER region. Driving Hardware automation projects like Automated Server Provisioning, Decommissioning. Managing Linux, Application Support & Netops Team. Working as Sole Technical Project Manager for India region. Proactively working with support Teams enhance monitoring, automating repetitive tasks. Capacity Planning, Purchase Requisitions and Procurement. Handling global IT core infrastructure, supporting and maintaining Systems Infra. Built and led strong technical teams and delivered high quality of deliverables. Motivate, mentor and developed members to grow in their roles. Infrastructure Projects: Setup IT Infrastructure for New Office: Project managed, worked on design and setup of IT, AV, Datacenter, connectivity infrastructure for a new office for 300 employees. Network connectivity, structure and backbone cabling for active and passive components for the site. Setup the user environment; planned and executed the migration the new office. Migrated In-house critical services, hardware to datacenter facility for maintaining high redundancy, Uptime and better management and maintenance. Setup of new Co-location for MCX Trading, Expansion of Colocation in NSE & BSE Optimization and performance of Colo infrastructure improving latency

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Infrastructure and Operations Manager in the Fintech sector.

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India

Experience: 21 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Infrastructure Management
Project Management
System Administration

Career Highlights

Expert in managing low latency trading infrastructure.
Proven track record in project management and team leadership.
Strong background in systems deployment and operations.

Work Experience

Tower Research Capital

Director of Technology - Core Operations (1 yr 2 mos)

Head of Technology Operations - India (1 yr 9 mos)

Senior Vice President Core Engineering India (4 yrs 6 mos)

Systems Manager (2 yrs 8 mos)

Fidelity Investments

Unix Technical Manager (1 yr 9 mos)

Technical Specialist (3 yrs)

Sr. Technical Anayst (3 yrs 2 mos)

HCL Comnet

Sr. Specialist Systems (1 yr 9 mos)

Sapient

Associate IT (2 yrs)

Education

BCA at Indira Gandhi National Open University

Computer Engineering from Board of Technical Education at State Board of Technical Education and Training

at Mayur Public School

Sundeep Gupta

CTO

Gurugram, Haryana, India21 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in managing low latency trading infrastructure.
Proven track record in project management and team leadership.
Strong background in systems deployment and operations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Infrastructure and Operations Manager in the Fintech sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure ManagementProject ManagementSystem Administration

Other Skills

AIXBackup and RecoveryChange ManagementClusterData CenterData ManagementDisk AdministrationHardwareHigh AvailabilityIBM AIXITILInfrastructureLinuxOperating SystemsOperational Excellence

About

Experience

Tower research capital

4 roles

Director of Technology - Core Operations

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Responsible for overseeing and managing the core operations for Tower India's trading activities, ensuring seamless support for major exchanges including NSE, BSE, and MCX. Leading the end-to-end management of trading infrastructure and spearheading key operational teams such as Infrastructure Operations, Application Reliability Engineering, and Markets India.
Key responsibilities:
Infrastructure Management: Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-frequency trading (HFT) systems, ensuring optimal performance, low latency, and high availability.
Core Operations Leadership: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams responsible for infrastructure operations, application reliability, and market connectivity.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, exchanges, and external vendors to ensure alignment on strategic goals, operational efficiency, and service quality.
Exchange Collaboration: Maintain and strengthen relationships with major exchanges to ensure compliance with regulations, enhance market access, and optimise trading operations.
Project Management: Drive key initiatives, managing complex projects related to infrastructure upgrades, technology refreshes, and process improvements, from planning through to execution.
Operational Excellence: Ensure smooth functioning of daily trading operations, identify and mitigate risks, and implement proactive solutions for system reliability and performance.
Strategic Oversight: Contribute to the long-term technology strategy, focusing on scalability, cost-efficiency, and cutting-edge innovation in HFT.

Infrastructure ManagementProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementOperational Excellence

Head of Technology Operations - India

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Senior Vice President Core Engineering India

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Systems Manager

Apr 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Fidelity investments

3 roles

Unix Technical Manager

Promoted

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

Technical Specialist

Jun 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs

Sr. Technical Anayst

Apr 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Maintaing hardware and operating system software on UNIX platform.
System Administration and troubleshooting Solaris OS 8/9/10 related issues.
Providing support on Aix related to LVM, file system, User management.
Providing Support on VxVm, SDS, NIS, related issues on daily basis.
User Management using NIS Access Management.
Patching Solaris servers with SUN OS baseline patch cluster, applying EMC, VxVm patches on regular basis.
Working with Storage team for allocation of Storage on Solaris and AIX servers.
File system creation on SAN using VxVm on both Solaris and AIX platforms.
Building Solaris servers for new Projects using jumpstart images.
Solaris Virtualization LDOM build and support like creation of Control and logical domains.
Supporting LDOM like allocation of additional CPU, memory, network and Troubleshooting LDOM issues.
Managing and supporting NIS domain in Fidelity.
Keeping platform’s updated with latest patches, packages, firmware and emergency bug fixes using Control Change Management process.
Helping application teams with creation of new application environments. Application tuning with help of application team.
Working with infrastructure team and help them in creating various environments like SIT, UAT, EBF, PERF, DR and Prod on UNIX platform.
System recovery procedures during system failure like SVM/SDS recovery procedure in case of SDS failure.
Performing backup and recovery in timely manner.
IPMP implementation and management for redundant network.
Creating scripts in Perl to automate UNIX tasks.
Performs decommission and migration of servers from old hardware to new hardware platform.
Working on support tickets using HPOV tool.
Interact with client team leads/managers regarding offshore specific issues and possible improvements.
Creating and maintaining troubleshooting documents on Wiki and SharePoint.

System AdministrationTroubleshootingUser ManagementBackup and Recovery

Hcl comnet

Sr. Specialist Systems

Jul 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

JOB Responsibilities:-
Managing Disk Space using VERITAS Volume Manager.
Creating, deleting, modifying file systems using VxVm.
Online relay out and RAID configuration on various SUN Servers.
Disk Failure and all Hardware related issues along with Vendors like SUN and IBM.
System Performance monitoring issues.
Adding/Removing Swap Space.
Configuring Dump device.
Installing/Adding new packages on Servers as per User Requests.
OS related issues as generated by Tivoli Monitoring System.
Troubleshooting NFS Services related issues.
NIS Management.
Disk Administration using SVM and VxVm.
Data backup and Restoration Issues.
Patching Administration.
Change Management and execution.
Checking for error reports on Servers.
Fail over and Switch over of Service groups from one Cluster node to another node.
VERITAS Cluster Server log messages related issues.
Storage management issues. Host Bus Adapter failure issues.
Backups and restore using IBM Tivoli.
Remedy Priority 1 or Priority RED problem management, escalation and resolution and root-cause analysis.
General proactive Operating System administration to help ensure the integrity, stability and performance of the platform.

Disk AdministrationSystem Performance MonitoringChange ManagementSystem Administration

Sapient

Associate IT

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Installing and configuring Solaris 8&9 in SPARC servers (E450, E250, E280R, V100, V120 V240R, Sun Fire series).
Installation, testing, troubleshooting and validation of new components or entire sites
Performing system administration tasks like Patch/Package Management, User Access Management and Controls, File System Management.
Storage and Disk Administration through Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)
Process Management and Scheduling using cron.
Implementing System Security and Auditing.
Managing DNS, NFS, FTP and NIS on both Server and Clients.
Restored Systems/servers using backups from tape.
Taking backups of Databases and File Systems.
Root Cause analysis of any Failure.
Data Management - Data Migration, housekeeping tasks, file system management tasks.