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Anshuman Das

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India24 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 21 years of experience in financial technology.
  • Expert in algorithmic trading and risk management systems.
  • Proven track record in building and mentoring high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in algorithmic trading and risk management.

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Core Skills

It Project & Program ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureData Analysis

Other Skills

Strategic ThinkingApplication DevelopmentInformation TechnologyBusiness ManagementContract RecruitmentBudgetingAgile TestingData StructuresBusiness AnalysisSDLCProject ManagementEquitiesSoftware Project ManagementProduct ManagementDerivatives

About

I am an IIT Delhi and ISB Hyderabad alumni with over 21 years of overall experience of which 18 years in the financial Industry managing people and technology projects. I have been in CTO/CIO role for the last ten years and am managing a team of 300+. A geek at heart, I love learning new technologies and have full stack coding experience in 18 languages. The other thing that brings me great joy is to build strong teams, mentor enthusiastic professionals and see them grow to become leaders in their own right. Experience-wise, I am a CIO& CTO who specialise in the delivery of both retail and institutional trading platforms, high frequency (HFT) & algorithmic trading applications, global market connectivity, exchange co-location, pre and post trade risk management software, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture and Model Driven Development.

Experience

24 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Jm financial services ltd

Managing Director & CTO

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Espressoinvest

Director

Sep 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Additional role of Director in the board of Espresso, a Sharekhan BNP Paribas company
Strategic ThinkingSoftware DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentIT Project & Program ManagementInformation TechnologyData Analysis+1

Sharekhan

Chief Information Officer

Feb 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

Strategic ThinkingSoftware ArchitectureContract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentBudgetingApplication Development+4

Edelweiss financial services limited

3 roles

Executive Vice President & CTO Global Markets

Apr 2021Jan 2022 · 9 mos

Software ArchitectureContract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentIT Project & Program ManagementInformation Technology+2

SVP, CTO of Edelweiss Global Markets & Group Head of API initiative

Apr 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Elevated to head the technology for the entire Treasury unit.
  • Also leading the Group-wise initiative for venturing into the API economy.
  • Built strong teams from 10 to 80 members of Software Development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, Project Management, Infrastructure and Production Support specialists.
  • Created a low-code system which led to being recognised as Top Chief Architect in the World by ICMG in 2019. Coding (experience in 16 languages) is a passion and hobby.
  • Instituted the DevOps team for the first time within the company to work on Hadoop ecosystem for Big Data analytics and MongoDB for NoSQL based applications and utilising AWS Cloud.
  • Built an operations workflow and MIS reporting system from scratch using Open Source components
  • Architected a complete algorithmic trading system with with strong pre trade risk management that connects to international markets and brokers through the FIX protocol.
  • Collaborated with NSE to improve its trade drop copy system and used it to create a real time Post Trade Risk Management System
  • Created a real time event based system to aggregate risk across desks and provide self service analytics and graphical dashboards for risk related decision making which has won several internal as well as external industry awards.
  • Overseeing the infrastructure for HFT and Algorithmic Trading at NSE Co-location.
Software ArchitectureContract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentIT Project & Program ManagementInformation Technology

CTO/Head of Technology, Associate Director, Global Markets

Mar 2016Mar 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Edelweiss is a rapidly growing Indian multi national company in the Financial Services space.
  • Joined as the first Chief Technology Officer for the Global Markets (Proprietary Trading) business units of Edelweiss.
  • Grew a strong team of developers, QA, Dev Ops and PMs to deliver cutting edge software solutions and enabled the growth of HFT and Algo Trading across asset classes and across global markets.
  • Hired several top notch developers and created the Dev Ops team to bring in an Agile development culture by training PMs to become Certified Scrum Masters. Architected an SOA driven central system that manages all risk centrally and gives a single system for a seamless Front to Back trading and operations workflow.
  • Completely automated all of our testing using the Robot Testing Framework that gives better results than a generic RPA application.
  • Enabled Big Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning through innovative product development.
Software ArchitectureContract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentAgile TestingIT Project & Program Management+1

Citicorp services india ltd.

2 roles

Vice President - Equity Technologies

Promoted

Feb 2013Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • 2015-2016 :
  • Elevated to SVP level responsibility with people responsibility of Core Technologies at Pune that includes people management of Trading Controls, Central Order Management System, Global Market Data, SOA Framework and Data Fabric teams at Pune. Manager of Software Development Managers. 4 VPs and 35 people roll-up
  • As the Global lead for the Central Trading Controls system, architected a Pre Trade Risk Management Engine which aggregates risk across all flows, all assets.
  • 2013 - 2015 : India lead for Global Market Access:
  • Built the team from 2 to current 13 members in 6 months of very strong C++ developers, QA professionals and Project Manager / Business Analysts for the Global Market Access product of Citi. Was given additional responsibility for the Flow ECN team and Program management for entire Core Technologies including Global Market Data, ETF pricing engine and algorithmic trading core framework. Led a team of 24 people.
  • Team proved its mettle by winning Citi's first Global Hackathon (Code development championship in which 200 teams across the world in Citi participated).
  • Delivered an Ultra Low Latency market access API, to abstract out venue and line handler vendor dependencies from the upstream applications, within a month, which has latency of under 2 micro-seconds.
Software ArchitectureContract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentAgile TestingIT Project & Program Management+1

Senior Associate > AVP > Vice President

Jun 2007Feb 2013 · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • 2010 - 2013:
  • Managed technology projects in institutional trading with focus in automated trading and arbitrage algorithms with complete responsibility for Citi’s NSE co-location implementation.
  • Brought the world’s foremost high frequency traders and option market makers to India at the NSE Co-location data-centre.
  • Developed several algorithms like cash-future quoting for automated trading and Equity & Derivatives arbitrage.
  • Heralded the use of FIX based connectivity to India’s National Stock Exchange.
  • Successfully handled demos at Exchanges and 6 audits by external agencies to get approvals for 4 DMA gateways, 20 Trading Algorithms, Smart Order Routing and an in-house OMS/EMS system.
  • 2007-2009 :
  • Managed technology projects in HNI and retail investments space; Led a team of ten consultants. Implemented the Siebel customer relationship management system which won Citibank the ‘Best CRM Implementation in Industry’ award in the Indian Banks Association Technology Award.
  • Negotiated with technology companies (TCS, iFlex/Oracle, Reuters) to save above Rs. 1 Cr through innovative contracts and reorganization of hardware, software and human resources.
  • Enabled Internet based trading platform and coordinated several audits\vulnerability assessment. 
  • Took additional responsibility of marketing manager for three months and worked on corporate communications and HNI events. Brought down the overall cost of an event to half of the normal budget.
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Adobe systems

Member Technical Staff - 2

Jan 2006Apr 2006 · 3 mos

  • Coordinated with international sales team at Adobe and derived requirements for a multi-lingual component which was the key for opening non-English speaking markets.
Contract RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentIT Project & Program ManagementInformation Technology

Headstrong, noida, india

Consultant

Jan 2005Jan 2006 · 1 yr

  • Lead team of four at Headstrong and architected a SOA based business compliance solution prototype which was used to secure several mandates by the company.
  • Published internal white paper on “Compliance Solution using Google’s Map-Reduce Technology”
  • “Order of Merit-2005” for being the Top performer
Software DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentInformation TechnologyData Structures

Fiorano software

Software Engineer

Aug 2003Jan 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Key developer of many GUI and service components of Fiorano’s ESB and SOA platforms
  • Instrumental in the first Indian sale of the company’s product by creating and presenting the proof of concept of the business solution for India’s largest CD manufacturer.
  • Designed products that is used by one of world’s largest banking software firm and steel company
Software DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentInformation TechnologyData Structures

Addition animation studio

Co-Founder

Jan 2000Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • This was a low budget animation studio setup during my college years along with my father (a reputed children comic cartoonist famous for his creation Cheeku in children's magazine Champak) and later funded through the salary I made from regular job.
  • Through this company I had launched animated video games (which were featured in PC Quest and PC Chip magazines in 2000), an educational spot on child literacy commissioned by DAVP (Indian govt's advertising agency) and a Hindi kids animation series "Liono Ke Sapne" (Liono's Dreams), which I had conceptualized and was centred around the dreams a pet dog might have. Five episodes of this series ran in Doordarshan (India's national channel) in Nov-Dec 2005.
  • Below is the link to the one of the remaining 5 unaired episodes of the series.

Education

Indian School of Business

MBA

Jan 2006Jan 2007

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master's degree — Chemical Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2003

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