Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos

Jan 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Created architecture, prototype and development roadmap for in-house Quantitative Finance tool to embrace elastic scaling.
• Migrated platform applications to become cloud-native and contributed to many firm-level initiatives like cluster-friendliness and embrace SRE.
• Oversaw multiple projects and held responsible for their architecture, design, implementation, delivery and operations.
• Provided technical consulting for multiple projects to facilitate adopting technology-specific best practices, modern development practices (TDD), and agile methodologies (Scrum, XP).
• Contributed to strengthening the engineering organization and building a highly collaborative tech community through knowledge dissemination via tech blogs and talks.
• Improved several aspects of the firmwide SDLC process by being part of the Architecture Committee since its inception.
• Established a process and framework for design discussions, design review, project quality management and production readiness review. It was widely embraced in various groups.
• Designed and built observability into many brown-field applications to monitor performance, domain-specific telemetry, and SLOs.
• Increased the incident's follow-up completion rate twofold for Valuation Platform as a reliability engineer and release manager.
• Contributed to form an in-house Tech Training Group with the vision of making better techies, including creating training materials and providing training for 200+ new hires.
• Tools & Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, myBatis, Gradle, Kotlin, Python, Git, Docker, MSSQL, AWS Core
• Services, Datadog, ELK Stack, Kafka

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Drove firmwide tech initiatives for Treasury and Valuation platform applications.
• Led and executed AWS migration for the Treasury platform, including exploring AWS core services, migrating file system use-cases to S3, and creating reusable launch configurations to scale for multiple clients.
• Implemented context-specific authorization for Treasury.
• Modernized multiple legacy applications with new technologies and tools to scale the team, product and operation.
• Tools & Technologies: Java 8, Spring, JQuery, myBatis, Gradle, Maven, Tomcat, Apache 2, SQL Server, MongoDB, Git, NewRelic, AWS (S3, EC2, VPC), Zookeeper

Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, India

• Modernized multiple Treasury legacy applications and services to use Spring from 'Perl, Core Java app' stack, including writing tests for full coverage of change scope to make the migration seamless, performing data reconciliation, improving modularity & readability.
• Investigated and addressed performance issues to improve the SLO of unified treasury position master through enabling concurrency and parallelism by design.
• Developed various gadgets for treasury platform to provide a summary and detailed view of the business data.
• Took the initiative and built a treasury platform operational dashboard to reduce required tech ops effort through integrated real-time monitoring.
• Upgraded Treasury platform infrastructure to use Kerberos as the primary authentication mechanism (from NTLM), MyBatis (from iBatis).
• Implemented process improvements to smooth the various phases of the development cycle as an owner of Treasury platform infrastructure.
• Developed data-warehousing solution for valuation reporting requirements, including creating ETL infra, designing star schema with dimensions, and building BI solutions.
• Tools & Technologies: Java 8, Spring 4, Struts, JQuery, myBatis, Maven, Git, Tomcat, SQL Server

Jul 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, India

• Designed and implemented real-time input processing dependency-manager system to run a price computation engine for various asset types, including evaluating the rule engines and finalizing drools framework for building this solution.
• Designed and implemented services to provide audit details of price, which involves developing a data model to capture the complex relationship between prices of various instruments.
• Built proprietary algorithms to create interest rate curves by dynamically forming feeds tickers, including automated validation checks based on data analysis. Designed to support new currencies with minimal configuration for research purposes.
• Migrated application to run on SQL Server from Sybase, including the large scale refactoring of persistence APIs and queries to make it more modular and loosely coupled with dependent databases.
• Improved the pricing application performance by strategizing database growth management through partitioning the database, reducing database size by 70% using page-level compression, and creating a script to auto-clean the stage and status tables.
• Tools & Technologies: Drools, Java 6, Spring 3, Struts, JS Prototype, Maven, Tomcat, Perl, MATLAB, FinCad, SSIS & C# - ETL, SVN, SQL Server, Redgate, Cognos

Jun 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, India

• Implemented various proprietary financial models to price the instruments traded in the firm, including evaluating complex industry-standard pricing methodologies through simulation and analysis.
• Developed configurable data extractor framework for getting prices from real-time feeds and broker files to replace manual work of the finance operation group.
• Tools & Technologies: Perl, Java 6, Spring 2, iBatis, Maven, MATLAB, VBA, SOAP, Sybase, CVS