Ravi Chandra C

CEO

New York, New York, United States19 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Valedictorian of Columbia Business School's Executive MBA program.
Led successful turnaround of trading strategies at Tower Research Capital.
Founded and scaled a non-profit supporting thousands of children.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on algorithmic trading and strategic leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

High Frequency TradingAlgorithmic TradingLeadershipProject ManagementMonetizationModel DevelopmentMentoringMarket DevelopmentResearch

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceAutomated ExecutionAutomationBack-TestingBroker InteractionC (Programming Language)C++Data AnalysisData CommunicationData MiningElectronic TradingEquitiesFinancial AccountingFundraising

About

Primarily a CS grad with vast experience in the Algorithmic High Frequency trading industry; over the years developed, managed, designed and executed several algorithmic trading strategies as well as several key components of a highly automated framework. As part of one of the founding trade teams at Tower, led a very cohesive subgroup that played a key role in engineering a successful turnaround ensuring the team's continued existence. Also has experience with founding & building a non-profit initiative from ground up and scaling it to a level of supporting the education of thousands of children every year and graduated as a valedictorian from Columbia Business School's executive MBA program.

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

19 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Tower research capital llc

5 roles

Co-Lead, COO (Trade Team)

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

In addition to managing trading responsibilities, acted as the team's primary contact liaising with the firm's internal engineering teams - Telco, Market Access, Networking, Architecture, Production Engineering, Simulation and HPC. Plan & execute strategic projects for the team; provide key technical inputs for firm-wide cutting-edge projects.

LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical LiaisonStrategic Planning

Global Monetization Lead (Trade Team)

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Following a significant drop in team's revenues, I successfully executed the mandate of designing a brand new trading pipeline and leading our global monetization effort spanning across 30+ exchanges.
Managed a cohesive subgroup which played a key role in reviving the team’s trading strategies and ensured a successful turnaround. Designed and supervised implementation of a modular and robust automation pipeline for improving monetization efficiency. Conducted in-depth analysis of team's trading across global venues to discover several profitable strategies which significantly elevated the bottom-line.

Trading Pipeline DesignMarket AnalysisAutomationMonetization StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingMonetization

Global Codebase Lead (Trade Team)

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

In addition to managing trading responsibilities, led a group of senior traders within the team, to oversee efficient use of team’s shared core strategy and model building framework. Directed the design & development of real-time monitoring systems and market data analytics.

Real-Time MonitoringMarket Data AnalyticsModel BuildingAlgorithmic TradingModel Development

Commodities & New Markets Lead (Trade Team)

Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 · 6 yrs

Mentored a group of new hires to expand trading into multiple new global markets. Interacted with brokers and exchange representatives to negotiate rates and liquidity programs

MentoringMarket ExpansionBroker InteractionMarket Development

Senior Algorithmic Trader

Jun 2006 – Present · 19 yrs 11 mos

Design, build and manage high sharpe, high frequency trading (HFT) strategies across multiple asset classes, often ranking among the top-5 trading volumes on an exchange. Optimize various aspects of algorithmic trading systems - data analysis, artificial intelligence, automated execution, back-testing, low-latency architecture and post trade analysis. In the initial years, developed market data parsers and order entry servers in C++ to electronically interact with exchanges.

PythonHigh Frequency TradingC++AlgorithmsData AnalysisArtificial Intelligence+5

Northeastern university

Research Intern

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos

Summer Internship in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, Boston
Co-authored the two following publications
Steganographic Commuincation in Ordered Channels: In this paper we focus on estimating the amount of information that can be embedded in the sequencing of packets in ordered channels (e.g. TCP).
Playing Push vs Pull: Models and Algorithms for Disseminating Dynamic Data in Networks: We consider the task of efficiently relaying the dynamically changing data objects to the sinks from their sources of interest in a sensor network.

ResearchPublicationData Communication