May 2005 – Nov 2016 · 11 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Designed and implemented high-quality, scalable and smart solutions in Middle Office and Global Reconciliation domains. Developed business applications and services for Prime Brokerage, Futures and Options and Asset Servicing.
• Global reconciliation: designed and executed data flow from existing RDBMS to data lake using Spark ETL (> 350 million records per day) and went live with first recon in data lake; lead 10+ engineers on various projects like mainframe elimination
• Middle Office: designed near-real time enablement of business rules from operations for system constituting hundreds of services (Hydra) through Drools/Guvner integration; lead two global working groups owning 20+ services by preparing service roadmaps and approving service design and code; automated backward compatibility testing and brought down manual effort by 94% (from 130 person-days per year to 8 person-days)
• Asset Servicing: prepared road map and guided engineers on projects like cloud migration, downstream flow simplification, performance and stability improvements, Java/OS upgrades, SDLC overhaul etc.
• Futures Clearing: designed and implemented components of Futures and Options Clearing system e.g. feed generator, data archival, FTP distribution, request consumer and processor etc.; scaled system from one regional instance to globally available system
• Prime Brokerage: hired as first engineer in India for Prime Brokerage Tech, build credibility with good and timely delivery of projects; designed and implemented revamp of report distribution system (> 1 million reports per day) and went live with first Axis2 based web service in the firm

Nov 2003 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Client: British Airways
• Role: Developer (team: 3 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed World Wide Deal System (WWDS) that managed frequent flyer program of British Airways.
• Front-end: JavaScript, HTML
• Back-end: JSP/Servlets, Struts, Apache Tomcat, Oracle

Nov 2002 – Oct 2003 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Role: Developer (team: 4 developers and a PM)
• We wrote a Private Wealth Management System aimed at helping client relationship managers manage their relationships with high net work clients more efficiently. This application enabled the relationship manager to get a complete picture of various aspects of the client. The reports and search results allowed maximum flexibility in drilling down to lowest levels. By switching tabs, an excellent view of pie chart distribution could also be seen.
• Front-end: Macromedia Flash, HTML, JavaScript (IE)
• Back-end: JSP/Servlets, Apache Tomcat, MySQL
• Role: Developer (team: 4 developers and a PM)
• We wrote a trading system prototype for convertible bonds and stocks having interfaces for both sales person and trader. Trader had additional functionality of managing inventories, place hedged order etc. Highlight of the prototype was the interaction between one sales person window and dynamic number of trader's windows (without any back-end). An order placed by sales person's window appeared on trader's window and an order executed by trader was updated on sales person's window. It also allowed on the fly search and sorting of orders by some criteria.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript (IE)
• Back-end: None

Mar 2001 – Oct 2002 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore (8 months), London (1 year)

• Role: Developer (team: 3 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed KRI, key risk indicator management system. It allowed central operational risk (OR) Control Team to consolidate OR report based on data entered by local risk controllers. Report could be generated on the fly on any dimensions of data with graphs.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript (IE)
• Back-end: JSP/Servlets, WebLogic 5.1 on Solaris, SQL Server 2000
• Role: Developer (team: 3 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed "RADAR", an incident capture system. It allowed any employee to enter a loss (incident) occurred in the organization. The incident then got routed through various concerned people and finally got accepted or rejected. The system also displayed consolidated reports of losses. I also wrote a complex build script that automated 75% of tasks that were done manually before.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript (IE)
• Back-end: JSP/Servlets, CFML, WebLogic 5.1 on Solaris, ColdFusion Server + IIS on Windows NT, SQL Server 2000
• Role: Developer (team: 3 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed "eq/broker", a stock trade execution system. It allowed traders to execute orders published on a topic by another system (Global Order Management System). After execution the order was published on a queue to be further routed depending on state.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript (IE)
• Back-end: WebLogic 4.5.1 on Solaris, Sybase 11

Dec 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Client: Archies Gifts & Greetings Pvt. Ltd.
• Role: Developer, Administrator (team: 6 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed archiesonline.com, a vertical gifts and greetings portal offering host of useful e-services like ready recall, free e-mail, e-cards, music and gifts. I also had direct interactions with client for requirement gathering and testing.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript
• Back-end: CGI-Perl, Apache on FreeBSD, PostgreSQL
• Client: Vending Resource Pvt. Ltd.
• Role: Lead Developer (team: 3 developers and a PM)
• We released and managed vendzo.com, a portal targeting both B2B and B2C users of vending resource industry. The basic objective of this site was to internet enable / automate ordering of vending resources required on periodic basis. I also had direct interactions with client for requirement gathering and testing.
• Front-end: HTML, JavaScript
• Back-end: JSP, Apache Tomcat on FreeBSD, PostgreSQL
• Client: ABB Alstom Power
• Role: Developer, Architect (team: just me and a DBA)
• I wrote a Java application on site that synchronized vendor website backend (SQL Server 7.0) and ABB Alstom backend (Oracle 8i) on the basis of specified business logic.
• Front-end: AWT Application on Windows NT

May 1999 – Jul 1999 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I designed and wrote an applet based Library Management System that brings complete library on one's desktop. A user could even queue for books that were issued to someone else.
• Front-end: Applet with tabbed screens (Netscape)
• Backend: Servlets, Apache JServ on Solaris
• IDE: Visual Cafe