Vasu Sharma

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led large teams across multiple locations.
Expert in low latency trading systems.
Strong background in engineering management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with expertise in low latency trading and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProject ManagementLow Latency TradingC++Qt C++Financial Markets

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBashComputer ScienceCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDistributed SystemsLinuxPeople ManagementProgrammingPythonStakeholder ManagementSystem Architecture

Experience

Tower research capital

8 roles

Non Compete

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

Break, BabySit, Explore

Division Manager, Risk Technology & Referential Data (India)

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · On-site

Led a team of 35 talented software engineers across 7 teams in India and Singapore with expertise in C++, Python, Java, Web Services and Databases.
Drove the Roadmap for Risk technology components e.g. Risk Checks, Price Analytics, Risk Reconciliation, Risk monitoring & Trade Monitoring by coordinating key priorities with Risk management & Trading teams globally.
Responsible for reviewing Tech design & architecture across projects and Led the efforts to move Trading & RiskMonitoring GUIs from legacy Desktop applications to web-based solutions.
Drove hiring efforts across teams to rebuild the teams after almost 50% attrition in 2021.

Engineering ManagementPeople ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementSystem Architecture

Core Engineering Team Manager, Tech Lead (Risk Recon)

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

Led a team of 10 developers to build and manage:
1. DropCopies and live trade reconciliation system for more than 110 markets globally across asset classes.
2. Packet captures, dissectors and outgoing events reconciliation system for FPGA for major exchanges globally.
3. End of day reconciliation tool for US equity markets and other major US exchanges.
Re-hauled core DropCopy architecture to improve CI/CD, operational complexity and the time to market.
Re-hauled the packet capture based reconciliation for FPGA trading to significantly reduce latency, operational complexity and infrastructure costs. Reducing kills due to delays and operational issues by 80%.

C++Low Latency TradingSystem Architecture

Core Engineering Team Manager (Risk Recon)

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · On-site

Core Engineering Team Manager, Tech lead (Trade Monitoring)

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs · On-site

Led a team of 4 developers to build and manage the QT C++ Desktop application with multiple C++ Backends, enabling real time trade monitoring for more than 20 trading teams at Tower across all major exchanges.
Re-hauled the Backend architecture of the GUI and led the migration from old core MD lib to new lib.

Project ManagementStakeholder ManagementPeople ManagementC++

Core Engineering Senior Software Developer (Trade Monitoring)

Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

Infrastructure Developer (GUI dev)

Feb 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · On-site

Built Backend and Frontend widgets of a QT C++ Trade Monitoring GUI supporting manual order entry,
visualization of market data, team orders/trades and aggregated trade & Risk metrics.
Built a C++ api library to integrate with strategies to expose strategy parameters on Frontend.

Qt C++

Infrastructure Developer (Markets Asia)

Jul 2010 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · On-site

Developed Market Data and Order Entry Engines for major exchanges in Asia pacific e.g. TSE, OSE, SGX, ASX, SFE, KRX etc.
Added multiple features to Tower's newly built core trading platform, e.g. supporting batching of algo orders.

C++BashLinuxFinancial Markets