Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Leading the Risk Technology and Referential Data department globally which comprises of 50 talented software engineers across 7 teams in New York, Delhi, Singapore and Montreal, with expertise in C++, Python, Java, HTML5, Web Services, Databases and Kubernetes. Reporting to the Global CTO.
• Was instrumental in Tower's growth into new business lines - US Equity Options, Sports, Fixed Income, Crypto - by spearheading the required risk and referential data solutions for these lines
• Made strategic investments to improve the performance and quality of critical trading risk controls that encompassed improvements in the position calculation systems, pricing engines and rate controls
• Rehauled the packet capture based reconciliation systems for hardware-accelerated trading that reduced latency, operational complexities and infrastructure costs
• Undertook a strategic rehaul of Trading and Risk Monitoring GUIs to move them from legacy desktop offerings to responsive web-based solutions and adapt them to mid-frequency trading needs
• Invested in various automation initiatives linked with Crypto referential data including a strategic integration with an external vendor that enabled us to significant expand our footprint in the business
• Led the rehaul of the risk limit management ecosystem with improved audit and validation capabilities
• Oversaw the consolidation of the Security Referential Data infrastructure and the build out of an extensive Corporate Actions Master platform

Apr 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Managed the regional Risk Technology department of 30 talented software engineers based in India across 5 teams. Reported to my global counterpart in New York and locally to the India CEO.
• Rehauled the live reconciliation systems to focus on addressing false positives and creating smarter alerts
• Spearheaded the build out of a real-time metrics aggregation engine that powers anomaly detection alerts and supports flexible hierarchies
• Pioneered a project that leverages Kubernetes to create an on-demand integration testing environment for trading and risk applications using exchange simulators to replace traditional UAT environments that significantly reduced testing burden and improved testing confidence
• Spearheaded the development of a modern web-based frontend framework to enable moving all frontend monitoring applications to the same and leverage the benefits of reusable components
• Mentored the team that delivered latency-sensitive Implied Pricing models for pricing illiquid futures
• Drove hiring efforts in India to grow the team from 16 when I took up the role in April 2017 to 30 by hiring quality talent across senior managers, technical experts and campus recruits

Jul 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Spearheaded the hiring effort to build a web dev team in Tower by hiring a full-stack web architect and 2 front-end web devs
• Took over responsibility of the cross-team live market data project which exposes intra-day market data stored in a proprietary timeseries DB through a webservice. Worked with the networks, systems & support teams to enable an effective global deployment for all markets
• Was the primary developer of the C++ webserver of the live market data service that utilized intel tbb for concurrency. Conducted extensive performance analysis to investigate scaling issues and implemented major architecture improvements involving cache usage optimizations, cache preloading and hybrid threading models.
• Actively engaged with trading teams, support, compliance & risk to address their issues and incorporate their requests. This involved regular business trips to New York, Charleston & London offices
• Mentored the team to release varying projects such as a new javascript market data charting framework

Feb 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Transitioned to the GUI team, that managed a Qt-based desktop GUI application that enabled trading teams to monitor markets and strategies, where I was a consistent top performer.
• Added support in our backend servers to aggregate pnl and risk metrics to feed the GUI
• Built a subscription manager for the GUI to manage fine-grained subscription requests from widgets to various backend servers
• Built a generic charting framework in JavaScript, using HighStock and Qt's Webkit Bridge, that could chart Pnl, control strategy values, etc.
• Built a generic statistics collection framework for the GUI, to store usage statistics on MongoDB which is regularly used for crash stats, usage pattern analysis and compliance purposes
• Learnt and employed Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and design principles to improve the client experience

Jul 2010 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Was the primary developer responsible for the major American futures exchanges - CME, ICE, CFE
• Developed markets connectivity for expansion into Canadian exchanges
• Was the primary developer for the Margin Server that managed risk limits
• Built upon & improved the self trade prevention technology for the trade servers
• Played a key role in the smooth transition from the old trading platform to the new one