Rajat Nigam

CEO

Belfast, United Kingdom19 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in Equities and Payments.
Expert in low latency market data solutions.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and tools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in payment processing and market data solutions.

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Agile MethodologiesBOEC/C++ STLCore JavaDesign PatternsECNElectronic TradingEmbedded SystemsFIX ProtocolJavaJava Enterprise EditionObject Oriented DesignRobot FrameworkSQLShell Scripting

About

Rich experience of around 15 Yrs. in Equities and Payments. Specialties: Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Multi-Threading, Sockets, Relational Database Design, Design-Patterns. Platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows Languages: C++ Perl, PL/SQL Tools: TFS, Git, Clearcase Testing tools : Google Mock

Experience

Citi

5 roles

Senior Vice President

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

EMEA head of Global Market Data

Assistant Vice President

Mar 2017 – Jan 2018 · 10 mos

Developing Low Latency Market Data Solution.

Assistant Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

Developing Low Latency Market Data platform.

Manager - Programmer Analyst

Nov 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

I played an instrumental role in building throttling, a feature built into Gateway’s application logic to prevent system from becoming overloaded as a result of overly aggressive messages being sent by the clients. With throttling in place systems is regulating the rate at which application processing is conducted.
Developed the support for phase 2 of Binary Order Entry in Gateway application.
Owner of Risk Management system.
Owner of Drop Copy which is used to drop executions over drop copy sessions to the clients.
Worked on QA Automation project using open source Robot framework.

Paypal

2 roles

Senior Engineer - Application Development

Promoted

Feb 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Chennai Area

As part of the team that owns PayPal transaction processing, worked on business initiatives like eBay Digital Goods, Ship2Funds, Pay After Delivery, Touchstone.
Mastered designing transaction models for various payment flows and built capabilities which eased the porting of various business projects on top of it.
Building delayed payments platforms and infrastructure which helped to build many other projects without much effort.
Created configuration packages, which allowed the business configurations for various projects to be set and updated in one place.
After working in multiple domains, recognized as the SME for Delayed Payments domain.

Software Engineer

Feb 2009 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

Interacted with other stakeholders that are dependent with our system and vice versa (like Risk, Finsys, Finops, Finprod, Onboarding, Merchant, AP, ETL, Reporting, IDI) thereby designing reliable interface.
Looked at the big picture of the product and influenced product managers explaining them the right product behaviors and exhibited the appropriate things for the domain's LTA and the product.
Mentored and provided training sessions in different Money areas right from the infrastructure to many BU projects for the people who needed ramp up on the system.
Actively resolved legacy and live issues. Had given the best support to be on top of the issues and thus helped to reduce the bug counts aggressively.

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

My responsibilities included preparation of requirement specification, giving estimates, prepare feature detail design document and implementation of the entire administration application displayed on the control panel of the Multifunctional Printers.
Developed User Interface screens for Multifunctional Printers.
Analyzed the root cause of memory leaks and fixed them appropriately.
Interacted with clients and were providing solutions for the issues in the products.
Ensured the functionality in the system by integrating different modules.