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

• Additional role of Director in the board of Espresso, a Sharekhan BNP Paribas company

Feb 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

Apr 2021 – Jan 2022 · 9 mos

Apr 2018 – Mar 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.

Mar 2016 – Mar 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.

Feb 2013 – Mar 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.

Jun 2007 – Feb 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.

Jan 2006 – Apr 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.

Jan 2005 – Jan 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

Aug 2003 – Jan 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

Jan 2000 – Jul 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.