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 2018Present · 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 2017May 2018 · 5 mos · London

Quantlab financial, llc

Infrastructure Engineer

Apr 2016Nov 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 2003Mar 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
LinuxNetworkingFirewall ManagementBackup Solutions

Icap

Server Administrator

Jan 2002Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Education

De Montfort University

BSc(Hons) — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 1996Jan 2000

Dr Challoners

Jan 1994Jan 1996

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