Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

• Leading multiple pods comprising 11 engineers (mid-level to tech leads across backend and QA), overseeing architecture, execution, and delivery for mission-critical trading systems.
• Coached and mentored engineers resulting in 3 promotions in a single financial year across multiple levels.
• Took over a high-stakes platform modernization initiative mid-cycle; cleared inherited backlog and delivered 100% of quarterly roadmap commitments on schedule.
• Built and owned the cross-org execution plan and delivery roadmap (deliverables, timelines, dependencies, critical path, risks, success criteria) and drove alignment across Product, Operations, Analytics, and multiple engineering teams.
• Presented roadmap, timelines, and risk mitigation plans to CXOs and leadership, driving alignment and unblocking decisions across orgs.
• Improved productivity and DORA metrics — reduced lead time for changes by 70%, cut review cycle time by 50%, and reduced average PR size by 72%.
• Drove architecture/design decisions, led code reviews, and ran pairing sessions to unblock engineers and uplift engineering quality, resulting in better collaboration and faster onboarding.
• Owned architecture of a real-time low-latency order execution platform processing 4K writes/sec and 50K reads/sec (P99 latency < 25ms).
• Established on-call rotations, stakeholder communication channels, SLO/SLA standards, monitoring, and alerting, reducing escalations and improving platform reliability.
• Stabilized execution during a major business pivot by re-scoping roadmap, sequencing priorities, and managing stakeholder expectations across product, operations, and engineering.

Dec 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

• Leading a team of 7 engineers to build the core in-house risk management platform for the angel trading platform targeted with an annual saving of $2M.
• Led design and development of the risk management platform handling over 11 million orders daily achieving P99 latency of 25ms.
• Implemented a monitoring and auto-unblocking job to unblock contracts for trading based on point-in-time liquidity, leading to an additional revenue of over $1.5M.
• Drove execution of the platform, bringing clarity to an ambiguous initiative via
• Gathering requirements from various stakeholders like operations teams, product managers, downstream consumers etc.
• Defining short and medium-term release milestones in alignment with long term organization goals, making tradeoffs and prioritizing items based on business need.
• Architected, designed and led development of a self-serve high performance rule engine mitigating compliance and margin shortfall risks, while reducing daily operational overhead by 40%.
• Led performance and load testing efforts, collaborating findings with domain experts like DBAs etc to tune indexes and queries, incorporating feedback causing a 20% performance improvement.
• Set code standards across the team in Go, publishing style guides and advocating for industry standard patterns and leveraging tooling like SonarQube etc leading to code quality and maintainability improvement and increasing the test coverage from 15% to 90+%.