Krishnakant Singh — CEO

Principal Full Stack Engineer | FinTech & Trading Systems Specialist | Leading High-Performance Teams in Hong Kong I am a Principal Full Stack Engineer with over 14 years of expertise in architecting, developing, and modernizing trading platforms and financial systems for leading global institutions. My core passion lies in transforming complex business challenges into scalable, high-performance technical solutions, leveraging a deep stack that spans Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures. Currently, I serve as a Principal Developer at Nomura in Hong Kong, where I: Lead the end-to-end modernization of legacy systems, such as spearheading the migration of a manual credit desk flow to an automated platform, resulting in a 40% estimated improvement in operational efficiency. Architect and develop real-time dashboards using Server-Sent Events (SSE), React, and Spring Boot to provide traders with instantaneous market data and risk analytics. Mentor and guide junior developers and interns, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement within agile (Scrum) teams. Drive the adoption of modern best practices, including microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployment on AWS. My career is built on a foundation of: Technical Leadership: Owning the full software lifecycle from concept to deployment, production support, and iterative enhancement. Full-Stack Mastery: Designing robust backends with Java/Spring Boot and building intuitive, responsive frontends with React, Redux, and TypeScript. Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of capital markets, trading workflows, and financial data analysis. Modernization & Scalability: Successfully migrating monolithic applications to microservices and leading front-end transformations to component-based architectures. Core Technologies: Java 8+ | Spring Boot | Microservices | React | Redux | TypeScript | Node.js | MongoDB | AWS | Docker | Kafka | Python (Pandas) | Agile/Scrum

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Full Stack Engineer with strong expertise in trading systems and modern software architectures.

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Experience: 13 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
React

Career Highlights

14 years of expertise in FinTech systems.
Led modernization of critical trading platforms.
Mentored teams fostering technical excellence.

Work Experience

Nomura

Principal Developer (3 yrs 6 mos)

EPAM Systems

Senior Full Stack Developer (Financial Services) (4 yrs 6 mos)

Melco Resorts and Entertainment

Full Stack Developer (1 yr)

Dubai Customs

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Siemens Technology India

Senior System Engineer (9 mos)

International Decision Systems

Associate Software Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Process Nine Technologies Pvt Ltd

Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Visvesvaraya Technological University

12 at DAV MODEL SCHOOL

Krishnakant Singh

CEO

Hong Kong, Hong Kong13 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of expertise in FinTech systems.
Led modernization of critical trading platforms.
Mentored teams fostering technical excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Full Stack Engineer with strong expertise in trading systems and modern software architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring BootReact

Other Skills

TypeScriptMicroservicesMongoDBPythonServer-Sent EventsReduxPython (Programming Language)GrailsGroovyJavaScriptAngularJSNode.jsXMLHibernateC++

About

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Nomura

Principal Developer

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hong Kong SAR · On-site

Leading technical modernization and full-stack development for critical credit trading systems at a leading global investment bank. I architect scalable solutions using Java, Spring Boot, React, and TypeScript, while mentoring junior developers and driving agile delivery.
Key Accomplishments:
Led the end-to-end migration of a manual credit desk workflow to a fully automated system using Java, TypeScript, and React, improving operational efficiency by an estimated 40%.
Architected and developed a real-time trading dashboard using Server-Sent Events (SSE) with a React frontend and Spring Boot backend, enabling traders to monitor risk and positions in real-time.
Spearheaded the front-end development of a desktop application using React and Electron.js, delivering a robust and native-like user experience for internal users.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of 3+ developers and interns, conducting code reviews, facilitating daily scrums, and ensuring best practices in software development.
Modernized legacy infrastructure by migrating Python scripts to scalable, maintainable Java Spring Boot microservices, enhancing system reliability and performance.
Orchestrate production deployments and provide Tier-3 support for high-availability trading applications, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid incident resolution.

JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptMicroservicesMongoDB+1

Epam systems

Senior Full Stack Developer (Financial Services)

May 2018 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Hong Kong SAR · On-site

Developed and modernized full-stack trading applications for a major investment banking client in the APAC region. Focused on building responsive UIs with React/Redux and creating robust backend services with Spring Boot.
Key Accomplishments:
Engineered a high-performance, component-based UI for a trading platform using React, Redux, and Redux-Saga, implementing JSON-Schema for dynamic, API-driven form rendering and validation.
Led the migration of legacy Spring applications to Spring Boot microservices, improving scalability and reducing deployment complexity.
Served as a company-certified Technical Assessment Engineer, conducted 50+ interviews, and played a key role in hiring and evaluating technical talent across the APAC region.
Developed automated Groovy scripts for ETL processes, converting complex Excel-based financial data into structured JSON for system integration.
Pioneered the exploration of Web Components to create framework-agnostic UI elements, future-proofing the codebase.

ReactReduxSpring BootJavaMongoDB

Melco resorts and entertainment

Full Stack Developer

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr · Hong Kong

Full stack developer experience in building scalable web application from scratch. Complete web stack experience from development to deployment over the cloud infrastructure like aws and digital ocean. Scaling mongodb and designing rest based application using spring boot, grails and groovy, express.js etc.

Dubai customs

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai

Full stack development using grails and groovy as a backend framework and angularjs as a frontend framework. Spring security configuration. Data migration from Mysql to Mongodb. Schema design of Mongodb.

Siemens technology india

Senior System Engineer

Jan 2015 – Oct 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore

End to end development using angularjs and codeigniter.

International decision systems

Associate Software Engineer

Dec 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Working on product development using Grails framework. Involved in writing business logic and execute changes in the internal framework as per the requirement.