Nivedan Nigam

Director of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of expertise in system engineering transformation.
Proven track record in low latency trading systems.
Strong background in application virtualization and HPC.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a focus on low latency trading and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering TransformationSystem ArchitectureTrade ProcessingDevopsEquities TradingLow Latency FrameworkCentral Trading ControlApplication VirtualizationSystem ProgrammingSoftware DesignNetworking

Other Skills

Kernel ModulesHPCDistributed SystemsMultithreadingPerlSoftware DevelopmentOperating SystemsHigh Performance ComputingC++TCP/IPProject ManagementResearchNetwork CommunicationsCloud ComputingLow Latency Trading

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17 years of extensive system engineering transformation, containerization, software design & development, optimization, solution design and architecture. Specialties: Engineering Transformation, Full Stack Development, Containerization, Networking, Virtualization, Low Latency & System programming Domain: Capital Markets, Trade and Regulatory Reporting, Equities Exchange Connectivity, Trading Controls (Pre & Post Trade Checks), Order Management Systems, Derivatives Trade-Processing & Confirmations, Application Virtualization and Provisioning Good Knowledge of HPC, Datacenter and Cloud computing, Linux System Development, User Level Virtualization Solution Development, Networks, Kernel development Application Development, Microservices, Java, Python, Angular, C++, C, Assembly, Shell

Experience

Citi

6 roles

Director

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Vice President

Feb 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Architect | Engineering Transformation

Engineering TransformationSystem Architecture

Senior Vice President

Nov 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Global Head OTC Trade Processing
Global Head OTC Confirmation
Global Head OTC DevOps and DBA

Trade ProcessingDevOps

Senior Vice President

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Equities Global Market Access Site Lead, Global Product Architect.
Global Lead DropCopy and Equities Reconciliation.
Global Lead for C++ Low latency framework

Equities TradingLow Latency Framework

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Global Lead - Central Trading Control
Site lead - Equities Data Discovery (DNA), Data Fabric (Area51).
Global Lead - C++ Low latency framework

Central Trading ControlLow Latency Framework

Assistant Vice President

May 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Global Lead - C++ Low latency framework

Low Latency Framework

Startup company (currently operating in stealth)

Co-Founder

Nov 2010 – Apr 2011 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Started a company in Bangalore as Co-Founder.
Planned to continue on the application virtualization product for HPC and Enterprise applications. Also worked on live migration of processes via kernel modules.

Application Virtualization

Librato, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

System Programming, Application Virtualization, HPC, Distributed Systems. Kernel modules
Design and Development of file systems, IPC, Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect virtualization components for High availability products.
Virtualization of various linux system calls and libc functions for IPC, Process tree, Memory map, NPTL Threads, Networks, and Filesystem etc.
RDMA, Infiniband technologies along with parallel computing MPI stack libraries over RDMA.
Developed Inhouse Infiniband fabrics virtulization supported for all MPIStacks.
Worked on Live migration of processes via kernel modules.
Proficiency of working with MPI stacks like MVAPICH, MPICH, OPENMPI and HPMPI. Worked extensively on Checkpoint-migrate-restart scenarios for applications running under Job schedulers (LSF, PBS Pro) and MPI stacks.
Load management of resources like IO, CPU and memory on distributed node or in cloud environment.

System ProgrammingApplication Virtualization

Veritas technologies llc

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Software Designer responsible for networking, OS , disk / filesystem imaging, security, and server monitoring / control
Worked on Linux Intel "Active OS" for various proprietary blade systems
Worked on ITAP secure networking protocol and multi-platform (UNIX, Win32, Wow64) server monitoring / control daemon (ITAP agent)
Worked on heterogeneous disk / partition / filesystem imaging features for HP_UX, SOLARIS, AIX, WINDOWS and various linux distros
Worked on partition / filesystem resize for all supported target platforms (Linux, Solaris, hp-ux, aix and Windows)
Experience in the areas of software quality, software maintainability, and software design in lifecycle management

Software DesignNetworking