Anish Taank

Software Engineer

Greater London, England, United Kingdom24 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in Financial Services technology.
Expertise in low latency infrastructure.
Proven track record in data center migrations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in low latency systems and data center management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LinuxLow Latency InfrastructureNetworkingBackup Solutions

Other Skills

Cisco IOSCisco Systems ProductsCisco TechnologiesCitrixComputer HardwareDNSData CenterData Center InfrastructureDisaster RecoveryFirewall ManagementFirewallsHPHP Server HardwareHardwareInfrastructure

About

20+ years experience of working in the Financial Services industry in the tech environment. Strong all round technical knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, hardware, data centers and low latency infrastructure

Experience

24 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs

Current Experience

Citadel securities

Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Jun 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Working in the Linux engineering team:
planning, building and configuration of Redhat Linux systems in global data centers for the purpose of trading on financial Exchanges
using automation tools (Puppet) to configure and maintain servers
troubleshooting server issues down to the kernel level
liaising with business/application teams to understand their needs and requirements for top of class trading systems
optimizing server performance (hardware and operating system)
low latency infrastructure deployment with FPGAs and layer 1 switches
In addition, networking skills are being used to examine traffic flow from trading exchanges to the server estate, from layer 1 to layer 3 switching stack

Red Hat LinuxPuppetLinuxLow LatencyNetworkingLow Latency Infrastructure

Lacuna solutions

Systems Architect

Dec 2017 – May 2018 · 5 mos · London

Quantlab financial, llc

Infrastructure Engineer

Apr 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · City Of London

Working in the trading infrastructure team, main responsibilities include the following:
LAN/WAN management around switching, routing and multicasting
Low latency networking
Network monitoring
Linux server builds
Linux server administration
Data Center deployments, including exchange x-connect management and hardware installation and configuration
Vendor management
European co-lo visits
Network design documentation

LinuxNetworkingData CenterLow Latency

Tradition

Team Lead - Linux

Jan 2003 – Mar 2016 · 13 yrs 2 mos

Key roles include:
Firewall management
Network monitoring
Linux package building and deployment
Linux server builds and tuning using Jenkins, Foreman, Puppet and RHN Satellite
Hardware installation
Backups and storage solutions and management
3rd line support of trading applications
Client onboarding
Highlights include:
Data center moves involving HP Blade installations with integrated Cisco, HP Flex-10 Virtual Connect and ProCurve switches, SAN and firewall implementation
Re-architecture of company backup environment to decrease backup window, improve backup and restore performance and provide more informative reporting
Planned and implemented the move from a physical to virtual environment for the Linux server estate. This provided the benefit of consolidating data centre rack space and saved power as well as provided the business with a faster and more powerful trading platform and resiliency using VMware It also provided the opportunity to create servers to a standard build using Foreman and Puppet
Working alongside the DBA team, reviewed the legacy Oracle platform and replaced it with modern blade servers attached to new Netapp FAS2240 SANs. Once migrated the application
response time and failover ability in the event of outages was greatly improved
Using a Corvil OPM, ran an analysis of client traffic inbound/outbound for a trading platform and produced a report for the business in order to make decisions on future bandwidth growth
Migration of Oracle databases for an FX trading platform onto Violin Flash Storage Array to improve overall platform performance