Ankit Sambyal

VP of Engineering

Haryana, India11 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12+ years in financial firms with low latency development.
Proven track record in building high-performance teams.
Expertise in high-frequency trading and market data systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in low latency systems and data engineering.

Contact

ankit.sambyal@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDatabase ManagementLow Latency DevelopmentRisk ManagementReconciliation SystemsSoftware DevelopmentInfrastructure DevelopmentMarket Data Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsC++Data StructuresJavaJava ConcurrencyJavaScriptLow LatencyMultithreadingPerlPostgreSQLProgrammingPythonRust (Programming Language)Web Applications

About

Engineering Leader with 12+ years of Experience in financial firms and low latency development. Leading and managing projects across 3 continents. Proven track record of building high performance teams. Strong technical and functional knowledge of HFT and MFT domain. Previously led the reconciliation infrastructure and its market layers. Currently leading global referential data team in Tower.

Experience

Tower research capital

3 roles

Engineering Manager and Tech Lead, Referential Data (Core Engineering)

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Heading a globally distributed referential data team of over 15 members, managing distributed systems for ingesting, normalizing, and persisting referential data essential to trading and historical research. The platform supports a wide range of asset classes, including equities, derivatives, interest rate swaps, fixed income instruments, and cryptocurrencies.

Rust (Programming Language)PythonPostgreSQLData EngineeringDatabase Management

Engineering Manager and Tech Lead, RiskReconciliation(Core Engineering)

Nov 2020 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Contributed to the next generation platform to achieve high throughput and high scalability. This was a re-architecture of the existing trading platform and involved major architectural as well as design changes.
Led a team to manage the live reconciliation infrastructure as well market layer for this infrastructure, and actively contributing technically. This reconciliation infrastructure handles 3 major components. First component is the live packet level reconciliation system for FPGA trading on various exchange worldwide. The infrastructure is low latency using kernel by-passing through solarflare onload API and CX5 cards and custom TCP protocol implementation. The second component is DropCopies and its live reconciliation system for global markets covering more than 140 exchanges worldwide. The third component is the end of day packet level reconciliation for US-Equities markets which reconciles each and every field that goes out on the wire.

C++Low LatencyPythonLow Latency DevelopmentRisk Management

Software Engineer 3

Sep 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Part of Risk technology division focusing on DropCopy Reconciliation for global markets covering equities, futures, options, cryptos etc and packet level reconciliation for FPGA trading and their smart alerting mechanism solutions. Packet level reconciliation for FPGA trading involves reconciling our outward packet level flow of FPGA trading with our internal systems to minimise any risk associated with hardware trading.

C++Low LatencyPythonReconciliation SystemsRisk Management

Microsoft

Software Engineer 2

Dec 2017 – Aug 2018 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Was part of Excel mobile platform team

C++Software Development

Tower research capital

Infrastructure Developer

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Developed post trade recon infrastructure which involves reconciling internal trades and positions with broker trades and positions. It also involves reconciling internal positions from 2 different sources.
Worked on compliance infrastructure to make sure Tower trading is adhering to compliance regulations like "Marking the Close", "Spoofing" etc.
Worked on tools for monitoring the processes at Tower and their alerting mechanism

JavaPythonInfrastructure Development

D. e. shaw & co.

2 roles

Senior Member Technical

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Jul 2014 · 6 mos

Worked as a core developer in the 'Market Data' team to develop market data parsers, normalized feeds, feed handlers and data sanity checkers for global markets.

JavaPerlPythonMarket Data Development