Naveen Dhaka

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in SaaS and AI platforms.
Led global engineering teams at Google and Uber.
Expert in real-time trading applications and cloud systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive experience in cloud engineering and trading systems.

Contact

naveen.dhaka@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

.NETAPI DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaApigee API ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)C#Cross-functional Team LeadershipData StreamingDatabasesDeep LearningDerivativesDesign PatternsDistributed Systems

About

20 years of experience in building SaaS platforms, AI agents, real-time electronic trading and mission-critical applications. 12+ years experience in leading global engineering teams. At Google I lead "Go to Market" cloud engineering teams, directly responsible for building self-serve, efficient GTM engineering systems powered by genAI to fuel Google Cloud's growth. Previously as a Senior Engineering Manager at Uber, I led business platform engineering teams to scale for 10x growth and build enterprise capabilities for managing business rides, meals, and deliveries. Overall I have led and inspired high-performing global engineering teams across product companies and leading investment banks. I have solid technical foundations by having hands-on experience in developing real-time full-stack planet scale distributed applications using Java, C#, GoLang, Angular, REST APIs, SQL, numerous Databases, Kafka, real-time low latency data streaming, Pub-Sub messaging technologies, cloud infrastructure and API management. I have built products using machine learning, AI (artificial intelligence), and launched genAI powered applications.

Experience

Google

Head of Cloud Sales & Partners Incentives Engineering

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Uber

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led business platform engineering teams - Scaled the platform for 10x growth and built enterprise capabilities for managing rides, meals and health.

SQLGo (Programming Language)ManagementLeadership

Wells fargo

Executive Director - Risk & Pricing Platform

Sep 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led Equity Derivatives Technology teams (size ~50) in India - Live Risk & Pricing Platform for Equity Derivatives, Swap & Synthetic Execution Lifecycle Management, Trade Capture for Structured Investments, Soft Dollar and Commission management, Reference Data System and Cash Equities Execution management platform
https://www.wellsfargo.com/cib/institutional-investing/equities/

React.jsSQLManagementLeadership

Morgan stanley

Vice President - Electronic Trading Platform

Jun 2014 – Sep 2019 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Engineering Leader for Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading. Led global development of Trading app(Passport) that is used by large Institutional clients over Internet, Citrix, Leased Line, Bloomberg Network. Support for trading in over 50 countries using direct market access, algorithms and alternative trading strategies.
https://www.thetradenews.com/guide/morgan-stanley-passport/
Previously Technical lead/Staff Engineer for External as well as internal trading applications. Hands on tech on C#, WPF, Angular, .Net 4.6, ASP.NET Web API, Microservices, Real Time Pub-sub, Kafka, Elastic Stack.

JavaSQLAngularJSObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)ManagementLeadership

Barclays capital

AVP Engineering - Rates Trading Platform

Mar 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led the development of desktop trading applications for Rates Trading desk. It involves development of various applications such as Trade Blotter, Position Blotter, Matching Blotter, Expiry Blotter, Order entry tickets for various fixed income and Interest rate derivatives (Bond, Swap, options, futures etc.). Key technologies used for developement are WPF, C#4.0, MVVM, Solace - hardware accelerated real time messaging.

SQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)ManagementLeadership

Rbs international

Sr Software Engineer - Futures Reconciliation

May 2011 – Mar 2012 · 10 mos

Development of reconciliation engine for all major derivative exchanges. It does trade and position reconciliation between various exchanges and RBS Clearing System.

SQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Morgan stanley

Senior Developer, Electronic Trading

Aug 2007 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Developed real-time equity and derivatives trading application used by institutional investors; It offers market dept trading using real time market data, market watch, order entry in a extremely customizable GUI developed using C#,.Net, WPF and MVVM. It also provides API solutions to external application developers to build solutions/UI on top of that to route orders to Morgan Stanley Equity Trading Infrastructure.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)