Dec 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Senior Director and Trading India Lead at BlackRock, I own product engineering for Aladdin’s Order and Execution Management Systems, delivering enterprise trading solutions across asset classes on a single global platform. With 18+ years in capital markets, I build cloud‑native, high‑performance systems with a bias toward resilient, low‑latency services in production.
• My core stack spans Azure, Java (Spring), C++17/20, Go, Node.js, and Linux—containerized on Docker, orchestrated via Kubernetes, and hardened with service‑mesh patterns and SRE principles. I design event‑driven microservices over gRPC/REST backed by MongoDB, Redis, and RDBMS tiers, engineered for HA, multi‑region deployment, and zero‑downtime releases via CI/CD and GitOps. I stay deeply hands‑on: architecting, coding, profiling, and tuning concurrency/memory models to meet stringent throughput and latency targets.
• Previously, I led Aladdin Foresight in India—an orchestration and workflow platform enabling regulatory compliance, balance‑sheet analytics, forecasting, and model‑driven SaaS extensions. In Trading, I drive the roadmap and architecture for OMS/EMS and front‑to‑back workflows, aligning scale, performance, and reliability with enterprise governance. I embed operational excellence through automated testing, observability (metrics/logs/traces), security‑by‑design, and robust release engineering.
• I champion API‑first and data‑as‑a‑product practices to unlock analytics and actionable insights across institutional and insurance workflows. Experience at Citadel, Sapient, and ABB shaped my approach to mentoring teams, raising the engineering bar, and shipping platforms that perform at global scale. Rooted in principles—clarity, ownership, empathy—I cultivate connected, inclusive teams so our systems and our people scale with confidence.
• Focus areas: OMS/EMS, low‑latency trading, event‑driven microservices, Kubernetes/SRE, gRPC/REST APIs, CI/CD & GitOps, observability, security‑by‑design.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2018 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Chicago, USA · On-site

• Client: Clearing, Settlement & Reconciliation, Citadel LLC, Chicago, USA
• Worked for the leading Hedge Fund in Chicago to rapidly design, develop and deploy front-to-back solutions that encompass all aspects of the business, including:
• Development and support of core functions of derivative trading solutions for a leading Hedge Funds.
• Position, Transaction, and other feeds to/from the system and other reporting.
• Trade lifecycle and bi-directional downstream connectivity to clearing/confirms and settlement functions.
• Develop the reconciliation application for entire firm’s daily trading activity, aggregate securities and cash positions with the street side.
• Analyze and design internal processes and reports linking various systems, e.g. Accounting, Operations, Clearing.
• Generate and examine the data, identify the breaks in various securities and report them to different teams for collaborative break resolution
• Responsibilities:
• Development and support of business and infrastructural applications.
• Work with the Lead Technologists to develop and deliver solutions within a timely manner within
• the scope of the overall business strategy.
• Root cause analysis of production incidents.
• Collaborating with the rest of the team in other regions and other development teams on common
• initiatives.
• Financial Modelling with Anaplan, Python, R etc.
• Building knowledge base(Wiki) and improving documentation and processes.
• Visit top tier 1 Engineering Colleges like IIT Delhi/BHU/Madras/BBN, BITS Pilani as Tech Panel for campus hiring.
• Projects:
• Over The Counter Trading, Clearing & Settlement
• Reconciliation
• Technology : C++11, Java 9/Spring MVC/Spring Boot/Hibernate/JPA, Python 3, Perl, Shell, JavaScript/node.js/Angular, MS SQL/Sybase, Linux

Jan 2007 – Mar 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India. Minden, Germany. Wickliffe, USA · On-site

• 800xA APD, India Corporate Research Center, ABB GISL, Bangalore.
• Responsible for leading software development team and modules. Worked on understanding and implementing software architecture , development, testing ,trouble shooting and debugging, and associated documentation and maintain software systems to meet the project/product needs . It involves using professional methods and software development tools and techniques in accordance with the Quality Management and company software development standards and guidelines. The role involves a higher understanding domain and related technologies , and review methods. It involves coaching junior team members and doing peer to peer reviews.
• Projects:
• IndustrialIT System 800xA 6.0 Development.
• ProduceIT Batch Management Development.
• OptimizeIT Asset Optimization Development.
• Diagnostic Collection Tool, System 800xA 5.x Development.
• Domain : Industrial Automation
• Platform: Windows, Linux
• Technology : C/C++, VC++, ATL/COM, DCOM, MFC, C#, .NET Framework, ASP.Net, MS SQL, IIS 7, Qt, Perl, Shell scripting, OPC, VB6, InstallShield, Config & Build Mgmt

Nov 2004 – Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Technology : C/C++, VC++, MFC, Qt, PERL, Shell Scripting.
• Designed & Developed VC++/MFC Based Windows Desktop Product DS Gene 2.0 - 2.5
• Migrated DS Gene to Discovery Studio 2.0
• Domain: Bioinformatics