SUMMARY:

• Hands - on and goal oriented IT professional with long years of diverse experience in capital & financial market, substantial technical skills in the areas of system integration, software architecture, design & develop,
• Have a successful track record of incorporating new technology into existing system status to deliver highly progressive and innovative IT solution that caters to clients’ ever changing needs.
• Coupled with my technical strengths, I also use my application business domain knowledge and project management skills to interact with users and executive management, understand organizational strategic requirements, plan and execute in a timely and cost effective fashion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strategic & Tactical goal setting, Planning, Design & Execution.
• Integration specialist - Front office, Data and Service.
• Strong Database, Unix/Linux and pub/sub background.
• Distributed and Multithreaded App Design & Development.
• Agile and Test driven Software Development.
• Good understanding of evolving Technologies like Hadoop & its eco-system, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Cloud computing - AWS ( EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, DynamoDb .. ), ElasticSearch
• Cloudera training on Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Flume, Sqoop, Impala
• Udemy certification on Spark, Elastic Search
• AWS Solution Architect Certification.
• Domain knowledge: Investment Management - Trading and Risk.
• Stakeholder Management and Client Relations.
• Vendor Engagement and Relations.
• Experienced in leading Off-shore & Global Team spanning multiple functional areas
• Leading the effort to design and implement new custodian big data & services( custody & accounting) using Phoenix, Hbase, Spark & REST services. Designed & Developed data ingestion framework to Hbase using java, jms, MQ & AMPS both for real time and batch mode data extracts. Also designing Data Quality module using AMPS, Protobuf & Kafka. Agile test driven framework with CB / CI using Jenkin and Jmeter for performance metrics.
• Evaluating and creating proof of concept modules using open source products like Kafka, Apache Spark, YARN, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, AWS ( EC2, S3, VPC, RDS).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead developer & Solution Architect

• Stakeholders communication across multiple business functional groups and lead a development team to architect the front office integration effort involving phased retirement of old systems and implementation of new middleware services and backend data warehouse. Did a thorough business and technical requirement study of existing systems and put in place a strong architectural framework for easy and near real time integration and monitoring of Bloomberg AIM, Eze Castle Trading system, Sophis Portfolio Management System, BB PORT ( Risk) and Advent Geneva accounting system. Entire system is designed & developed using agile methodology and with mostly Open source technology stack. Instrumental to moving and supporting several funds to new platform. We achieved this very much within budget and target timeframe.
• Design & development of Trade, Position & Cash Reconciliation module, a sophisticated tool for break resolution with all Prime brokers / Custodians.
• Design & development of Sub/Red & Corporate action Engine interfacing Bloomberg, Advent & back office
• Major contributor to newly created data warehouse and data mart services.
• Proof of concept modules using open source technology stack like Kafka, Apache Spark, YARN, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana with Scala/Python

Dev Environment: Java 7, REST, Spring, Github, Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkin, JAXB, MQ, Mule ESB, BB API, Oracle 11/MySql, Hibernate, JQuery, Agile, MongoDb

Confidential, NY

• Lead a team to implement BASEL II and BASEL III regulatory requirements from the credit risk perspective. Creating an enhanced framework for on-demand multi scenario stress testing with pluggable analytical components and data driven dynamic workflow. System is designed with phased implementation in mind and usage of common components across various systems.

Confidential, NY

VP

• A multi-year initiative within MSIM towards an enterprise architecture solution environment that could co-exist with third party SLA’s and internal applications based on one common information exchange interface. Worked to port legacy Fixed Income System to 3rd party trading system and link it to backend data warehouse and services under construction in partnership with SS.
• Manage enhancement, fine tuning and support of Global Fixed Income Risk System that caters multi factor risk reporting / multi instrument hedging strategy / sector-country-quality-currency breakdown analysis / DTD / for portfolios and benchmarks.
• Fixed Income Trading System Renovation initiative: Analysis of Capstone/Tesseract and Bloomberg AIM for fixed income trading. Lead the development effort for real time connectivity for data/events/change-notification with internal systems such as Pre Trade Compliance, Security Master and downstream trade-service-layer for posting/confirmation/notification. Applied the infrastructure for real time connectivity of equity trading system (LVTS) to back office.
• Global Benchmark hub design initiative: Architectural design analysis of benchmark hub for all asset classes. Sourcing of vendor data and compilation of custom/model benchmarks and services. Interacted with BarCap POINT for FI attribution.
• Heavy use of Enterprise architecture, messaging, Java, Spring, CXF, JAXB, XSLT, JMS, MQ, SOAP, JSP, SLF4J, CPS (Pub/Sub), EEE entitlement, Sybase, JIRA, Comet 5, HP QC, Confidential

Confidential, NY

VP

• Design, develop and implement PRISM - a consolidation of all products, performance and benchmark data for Institutional and Investment accounts under one umbrella.
• Successfully implemented a browser facing ‘LEX Value Added System’, an objective tools to measure the value added from fundamental stock recommendations within Global Sector Team (GST).
• Took active part in the firm-wide outsourcing initiative and training

Environment: IIS, .NET, C#, Infragistics, Crystal Report, Java2, servlets, JSP, Java Scripts, Bean, Weblogic, Oracle 9.x and ClearTrust, Confidential