Akshay Shukla

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a team growth from 2 to 25+ developers.
  • Expert in ultra-low latency trading systems.
  • Strong background in electronic trading and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on electronic trading systems and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipElectronic TradingTrading Systems

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache KafkaApplication DevelopmentCC#C++C++14C++17CryptographyData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsEMVForeign Exchange (FX) TradingGo (Programming Language)

About

โžค A well-rounded software professional with diversified software development experience across ultra-low latency ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ (Equity and Forex), ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ (Disk and Tape), and the ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ. โžค ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ข๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜: Providing local oversight and leadership for the core platform team in India, including the trade processing and straight-through processing team, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities. โžค ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜: Building, mentoring, and growing team members by fostering a culture of continuous learning, professional development, and collaboration. โžค ๐—š๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: Collaborating with global managers to align strategies, share best practices, and ensure seamless communication across geographically distributed teams. โžค ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜: Overseeing project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes and adherence to timelines. โžค ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐Ÿฎ๐—•๐—ซ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ: Providing technical guidance and support for the Core Library team, ensuring the development of efficient, scalable, and maintainable C++ solutions. Demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work by ensuring test-driven development of efficient and high-performing code with organized and detailed documentation. โžค ๐—–๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: Fostering a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture that aligns with the companyโ€™s values and mission. โžค ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: Acting as a key point of contact for local teams, ensuring clear and effective communication with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. โžค ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: Contributing to the strategic direction of the organization by identifying opportunities for innovation, process improvement, and team growth. โžค ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜: Setting clear goals and expectations by providing regular feedback, and conducting performance evaluations to ensure team members are meeting their potential. โžค Expertise in requirements gathering, translating into specifications, project planning & estimations, solution architecture, and application development using ๐€๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. โžค Experienced system and application developer in ๐‚, ๐‚++, ๐†๐จ, ๐Ž๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž-๐‚, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚#. โžค Worked on various payment industry standards like ๐„๐Œ๐• (๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ฉ & ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ), ๐ˆ๐’๐Ž8583, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐’2805.

Experience

Standard chartered bank

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Aug 2022 โ€“ Present ยท 3 yrs 7 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I am an experienced Engineering Manager leading C++ and C# development teams for low-latency distributed systems. Built and grown the Bangalore team from 2 to 25+ developers in 3 years with a positive and collaborative culture.
Foreign Exchange (FX) TradingElectronic TradingLeadershipTeam Building

Associate Vice President

Aug 2019 โ€“ Jul 2021 ยท 1 yr 11 mos ยท Greater Bengaluru Area

  • I am into Software development of Low latency distributed systems; a product known as Straight 2 Bank, a Foreign exchange trading system. Mainly involved with trade processing, and sending it to Back office.
  • Requirements gathering.
  • Leading a team of C++ developers to deliver the software requirement.
  • Drastically improved the trade execution time, delivered multiple features and regulatory requirements.
  • I have extensively used C++14, C++17, and Solace here.
Electronic TradingTrading Systems

Morgan stanley

Vice President

Jul 2021 โ€“ Aug 2022 ยท 1 yr 1 mo ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I am into Software development of Ultra low latency distributed systems algorithmic library for equity trading system.
  • Integrating the solution with Kafka.
  • Leading a team of C++ developers to deliver the software requirement.
  • Extensive use of C++14 and C++17
Electronic TradingTrading Systems

Western digital

Principal Engineer

Dec 2016 โ€“ Aug 2019 ยท 2 yrs 8 mos ยท Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Lead a team of C++ developers to deliver the software requirement of Disk drives. My responsibilities were :
  • Requirements gathering.
  • Feature enhancement based on customer feedback.
  • Project estimation with Agile Methodologies.
  • Proof of concepts.
  • Solution architecture.
  • Designed and developed applications to run on different platforms.
  • Project demonstration to higher management and documentation to support team.

Hewlett packard enterprise

Software Engineer

Jun 2014 โ€“ Dec 2016 ยท 2 yrs 6 mos ยท Greater Bengaluru Area

  • I worked in software tools development of Tape Drives. I worked on the following key areas :
  • Linear tape file system.
  • Features to use tape drives
  • Predictive analysis of issues
  • Diagnose of tape drives.

Verifone

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2009 โ€“ May 2014 ยท 4 yrs 8 mos ยท Greater Bengaluru Area

  • I worked in software development of payment applications for the banks in Australia and New Zealand. Key responsibilities were :
  • Enhancements of existing payment applications with respect to the functional needs of the market.
  • Design & implementation of the POS interface aimed at the development of integrated POS solutions.

Mindfire solutions

Software Engineer

Jun 2008 โ€“ Jul 2009 ยท 1 yr 1 mo ยท Greater Delhi Area

  • I started my career into software development by :
  • Porting code base from Windows to Mac.
  • Substituting Windows APIs with relevant Mac APIs.
  • Converted C++ code to Objective-C.
  • Windows Services to Daemons on Mac.
  • Handling notifications.

Education

C - DAC, NOIDA

PG Diploma In Embedded Systems and Design

Jan 2008 โ€“ Jan 2008

Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus Bhilai

Bachelor of Engineering - BE โ€” Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2003 โ€“ Jan 2007

BSP Senior Secondary School Sector 10

SSCE CBSE

Jan 2002 โ€“ Jan 2003

BSP Senior Secondary School Sector 10

SSE CBSE

Jan 2000 โ€“ Jan 2001

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