Sundeep Kartan

Director of Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, United States15 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led data engineering teams to optimize analytics platforms.
  • Successfully modernized data pipelines, reducing costs significantly.
  • Managed cross-functional teams to enhance data systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong expertise in Data Engineering and Leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringLeadershipSystem Architecture

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAnalysisBashBoost C++CC#C/C++ STLData AnalysisData AnalyticsFinancial ModelingGovernance PracticesInfrastructure OptimizationLinuxMLOps

Experience

Project44

Director of Engineering, Data

Apr 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

  • Managed the Data Technology organization including the MLOps, the globally distributed Data Engineering, and the Product Data Analyst teams. In addition, assisted in platform deployment to allow for international visibility.
  • Established governance practices, consolidation of logic under golden source of truth, and cross-company outreach practices to globally optimize the data analytics platform.
  • Decommissioned bespoke ETL processes for industry standard tooling. Optimized infrastructure usage to reduce cost by 45%.
Data EngineeringMLOpsData AnalyticsGovernance PracticesInfrastructure OptimizationLeadership

Amount

3 roles

Head of Data

Nov 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Managed the combined data engineering team across Amount Consumer and Amount Small Business as well as the Amount Consumer BI, Data Operations, and the data driven Policy Monitoring teams.
  • Emphasized software and process improvements as keys to reducing manual, low value tasks. Drove the buildout of low touch, easy to recover platform as a replacement for operations personnel.
  • Brought all data production tasks and pipelines into connected, chained components. In doing so, decommissioned over one thousand disjoint tasks and used the full power of the data platform to build low touch data systems.
Agile MethodologiesAWSData EngineeringData AnalyticsLeadership

Head of Data Engineering

Feb 2021Nov 2021 · 9 mos

  • Began an 18 month process of modernizing the data pipeline with targets on client agreements. Rearchitected the system end-to-end, reduced compute usage by 95%, reduced delivery time SLA misses by 90% for the most compute heavy clients. In addition, drove data platform infrastructure costs down by 75%.
  • Rebuilt the data engineering organization by scaling the team, expanding team responsibilities into the application stack, and renewing trust for the data engineering team amongst other data verticals.
Agile MethodologiesAWSData EngineeringLeadership

Director of Engineering

Jan 2020Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Managed the Account Opening Verifications technology team. Primarily focused on new vendor integration and the design of frameworks to increase rigor of existing integrations.
Agile MethodologiesAWSSystem ArchitectureLeadership

Avant

Director of Engineering

Jul 2019Dec 2019 · 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

Agile MethodologiesAWSSystem ArchitectureLeadership

Citadel llc

3 roles

Equities Technology Manager

Promoted

Feb 2016Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Lead team supporting five business units, responsible for performance pipelines and services, process industrialization tools, and data access platforms
  • Took an active role in the specification, development, and rollout of the multi-year effort to refresh the portfolio manager tool suite
  • Drove rethink of research processes to add faster access to both external and internally generated research data
TradingBashData EngineeringLeadership

Equities Software Engineer

Sep 2010Feb 2016 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Designed and developed software tools for the fundamental equities businesses to industrialize their research processes and provide portfolio performance statistics
  • Managed and mentored Financial Technology Associates by defining project goals and establishing deadlines, prioritizing requests across businesses, and guiding the execution of deliverables based on business needs, organizational objectives, and personal development goals
TradingBashData EngineeringLeadership

Financial Technology Associate

Jul 2009Sep 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Completed ten weeks of intensive graduate level coursework in financial and investment theory followed by three rotations across key business units within Treasury and Global Equities Research Technology
TradingBash

Motorola mobility (a lenovo company)

2 roles

Acoustics and Audio Engineer Master's Intern

May 2008Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Libertyville, IL

Acoustics and Audio Engineer Intern

May 2006Aug 2006 · 3 mos · Libertyville, IL

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2015Jan 2017

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

M.S. in Electrical Engineering; specialized in Acoustics and Signal Processing

Jan 2007Jan 2009

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors; specialized in Signal Processing

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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