Ashish Parekh — Software Engineer
Summary: A leader with technical know-how and hands-on with On-premise, Colo infrastructure platform and low latency environment for Buy side and Sell side firms like Hedge funds, Proprietary trading, Market making firms, Investment banks and Banking industry. An avid Linux lover and open source enthusiast and Cloud native. Firmly data-driven, delivery and execution-oriented approach by living organization values and behaviors. Apply technology innovation and automation for all customer needs. Patents: Sole innovator for “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING UNUSED STORAGE CAPACITY WITHIN A COMPUTER NETWORK” (U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/504,647, filed May 11, 2017 for JPMorgan Chase) Specialisation: Linux ans system engineering | Infrastructure as Code | Low latency and HFT | Co-Location and Trading venues | HPC | Linux/Unix Security | Cloud Architecture | Cloud Platform engineering | Dev ops | Container Technology Skills: • Operating Systems: Red hat Enterprise Linux 8/7/6/5, Ubuntu LTS 20.04/18.04 and Amazon Linux 2/1 • Programming: Python, Perl and Bash/Korn shell scripting • Bare metal hardware Platform: Dell, HP and IBM x86 hardware • Low latency setup: Solarflare openonload, Kernel bypass, PTP timekeeper, NUMA, huge pages, cset, syslog-ng • Infra as code and configuration management: Ansible, Terraform • Linux Security, compliance and auditing: SElinux, Auditd, Openscap and AIDE, Cryptography, encryption, PKI and SSL • SSO and Linux Identity and access management: SSSD Active Directory bridging, Centrify, PAM, Sudo, SSH • Cloud platforms: AWS Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure practitioner, Hashicorp Vault • Container: Docker, Podman and sound knowledge Kubernetes • CI/CD: TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub, bitbucket, Jfrog Artifactory • Virtualization: VMware ESX and KVM management, SCEP, and key management • Experience with web services and API technologies such as HTTP, SOAP, REST and microservice frameworks • OpenSource Database Platform: Sound knowledge Mysql, Mariadb, Sqlite • Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, ITIL • Cluster Software: KeepAlived, HA proxy, IBM PowerHA, IBM GPFS and Veritas cluster server • Storage techniques SAN & NAS: Enterprise-scale storage SAN and NAS experience FC, SCSI, NFS/NFS4 • Networking Products: Required knowledge of networking, routing, load balancers and firewalls, Software-defined networking, topology, VLANs, VxLAN, Zero trust architecture • Good understanding of networking and protocols including TCP/IP UDP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, Chrony. NTP, PTP and tcpdump packet capturing for troubleshooting
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Specialist with expertise in low latency systems and cloud engineering.
Location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Experience: 21 yrs 11 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in low latency and high-frequency trading environments.
- Innovator with a patent in storage capacity identification.
- Strong background in Linux and cloud architecture.
Work Experience
Virtu Financial
Systems Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)
Schonfeld
Infrastructure Engineer (11 mos)
Standard Chartered Bank
Manager Linux/Unix Engineering (4 yrs 5 mos)
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice President, Global Technology (2 yrs 9 mos)
Barclays Bank
APAC Team lead Linux/Unix support (5 yrs 11 mos)
Citi
Sr. Unix Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)
IBM
Unix System Administrator (1 yr)
Capgemini Consulting
Unix/Linux admin (1 yr)
National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Linux/Unix Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)
Tata Internet Services Limited.
Datacenter engineer (1 yr)
Education
Electrical at Vivekanand Education societies polytechnic