Sanchit Gupta

CEO

Seattle, WA, United States16 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 40 engineers to deliver innovative solutions.
Achieved 5X increase in user adoption through technology transformation.
Implemented intelligent monitoring, reducing incidents by 80%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong leadership in software development and DevOps.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipData AnalysisEngineering LeadershipDevopsSoftware Development

Other Skills

PythonCloud TechnologiesCI/CDInfrastructure AutomationZabbixDatadogSplunkAppDynamicsComputer ScienceDatabasesHigh-performance computingNLPAIEngineering ManagementSystem Architecture

About

Technology Leader with a strong Development and DevOps background in the Financial domain. Demonstrated experience architecting and developing scalable and reliable software and building self-motivated engineering teams. Proven ability to drive business impact and efficiency through technical excellence and collaboration with stakeholders and partner teams. Passionate about learning new skills and applying engineering to solve complex business challenges.

Experience

16 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Pimco

4 roles

Senior Vice President, Portfolio Construction and Optimization Technology

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

Leading the development of a scalable Portfolio Optimization platform, leveraging advanced algorithms and data analysis to revolutionize portfolio management and construction. Collaborating with Portfolio Managers, Quants, and stakeholders to translate complex business needs into a robust, data-driven solution.

PythonTechnical Leadership

Senior Vice President - Financial Software Engineer, Client Analytics Technology

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

Led a high-performing team of 40 engineers to deliver innovative technology solutions for clients, including Portfolio Risk Analysis & Optimization, Client Intelligence, ESG, and Retirement Solutions. Spearheaded a transformation of the technology infrastructure, migrating to cloud technologies (AWS, Snowflake, Pivotal Cloud Foundry), reducing technical debt, and implementing best practices (CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation). Achieved significant business impact, including a 5X increase in user adoption and saving over 1000 business-associated manual hours annually.

PythonEngineering Leadership

Vice President, DevOps Manager, Tech Operations

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 · 5 yrs

Led a global TechOps organization of 50+ members, setting strategic direction for Production Support & DevOps to ensure the reliability of mission-critical Trading & Risk Management applications with over $2 trillion AUM. Oversaw the implementation of Enterprise Logging, Infrastructure & Application Performance Monitoring, Incident & Problem Management processes, and IT Operation Analytics & Automation (Splunk, AppDynamics, ServiceNow).

Computer ScienceDatabasesDevOps

Financial Software Engineer

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

Developed a scalable and efficient platform for pricing and risk analysis financial models handling over $1 trillion AUM, utilizing high-performance compute clusters, databases, and caching.

Computer ScienceDatabasesSoftware Development

Citadel llc

Director, Head of Enterprise Monitoring

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Chicago, IL

Directed the strategy and delivery of a scalable IT Monitoring Infrastructure to ensure the reliability of critical trading and risk management systems. Supported a wide range of infrastructure and application monitoring tools (Zabbix, Datadog, Splunk, AppDynamics, PagerDuty). Led a project to consolidate metrics and time-series analytics, handling over 200k metrics/min using open-source technologies (Kafka, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Grafana, Kapacitor). Implemented intelligent monitoring automation, reducing incidents related to insufficient server monitoring by 80%.

PythonEngineering Leadership

Ibm

Master Thesis Student

Aug 2010 – May 2011 · 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Master Thesis Project: Reviewing and Ranking of Retail Products Using Sentient Analysis of Customer Reviews
Implemented techniques (using NLP and AI) to acquire product reviews from major ecommerce sites, extract product features and conduct sentiment classification and ranking
Achieved 78% accuracy over a data set of 300k reviews and 100 products

Computer Science

Barclays capital

Technology Analyst Intern, Global Technology, FX IT Support

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · Singapore

Ran and monitored daily batches for Forex Exotics using 'Risk Framework (RFW)'
Developed a Content Management System to handle 'Risk Framework', a forex application's technical documentation
Integrated the CMS with code version control and release management system for automatic feeds
The system was eventually incorporated by various other teams at the company

Computer Science