Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos

Jan 2016 – Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Responsible for operations, planning, growth and ultimately PnL of Index options trading.

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Principally responsible for trading options on European and Asian indices.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr

• Heading teams of talented systems engineers working on trading and core infrastructure as well as trading operations, analysis and performance.
• Some of my challenges are:
• Decreasing our internal organizational complexity.
• Spurring innovation and exploration while ensuring that successful and stable products get commoditized.
• Focusing on R&D in the area of low latency and high frequency trading.
• Removing unnecessary handovers and providing the milieu for better and yet leaner value chain alignment.
• Cross training various engineers in order to foster T-shaped knowledge profiles.

Mar 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• In charge of expanding trading infrastructure, automating and improving processes, tuning software while emphasizing on software/hardware interface and developing automation, performance analysis, visualization and reporting scripts -- all within an agile operations environment bent on Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Managed teams of various business analysts, engineers and QAs in an ultra fast paced trading environment. Took over an underperforming department, expanded and built the structure that was pivotal to the turnaround as well as the success of our organization.
• Empowered team leads as well as engineers and fostered an environment of continuous improvement.
• Worked closely with various cross-functional teams on whitespace projects, both on the strategy as well as the
• implementation side.
• Systematically worked on reducing overhead of non-value adding activities and promoted continual enhancement of value adding ones.
• Architected operational excellence strategies used across IMC.
• Redesigned the hiring, onboarding and training program of new hires.
• Developed and deployed numerous business capabilities ranging from decoders, dynamic tick schedulers and analysis and visualization tools.

Oct 2009 – Mar 2010 · 5 mos

• Setup various automation tools to aid Hadoop system administration. Creating analysis tools that analyzed and amalgamated Hadoop data. Spearheaded the website redesign project and helped enhance monitoring and deployment tools.

Aug 2001 – Oct 2009 · 8 yrs 2 mos

• Lead the expansion of the IT department and spearheaded numerous projects (monitoring, firewall, IDS, deployment automation, website redesign, CMS system, backup, security, etc) using various technologies like C#, java, python, ActionSctipt, PowerShell and bash in a hybrid Windows-Novell-Linux environment.
• Managed all IT related projects including cross functional teams.
• Led the project of website redesign and introduced e-commerce features including PayPal support. This resulted in five times higher website traffic than ever before as well as increased revenue.
• Developed a complete security program including setting up framework for administrative, technical and physical controls.
• Substantially increased staff members’ awareness about computers and security via classes, one-on-one training and videos.
• Integrated numerous 6Sigma business strategies into present organizational processes.

Mar 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Developed and setup analysis and monitoring tools (bash, python, java servlets), provided last level support for Top-Tier customers. Initiated a new training program for engineers.