Kalpesh P. Email and Phone Number
I am a seasoned Senior Software Engineering Manager with over 13 years of experience leading software teams and over 24 years in software development, 17 of those within a major investment bank and the last two with an advertising technology innovator. I thrive on building and leading software engineering teams through challenging environments, navigating ambiguity, championing excellence and setting strong technical direction while delivering business outcomes.My approach is business-focused; I work with stakeholders on a daily basis to ensure business needs and platform stability goals are balanced.I seek to improve communication between technology, product and business partners, ensuring teams work together productively, and that business priorities are communicated and executed effectively.
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd
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Back Office Change Team LeadDaiwa Capital Markets Europe LtdLondon, England, Gb -
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Software Engineering Manager, Credit Desktop Web Portal (Vp)Credit Suisse Sep 2020 - Apr 2022London, England, United KingdomKey Achievements:• Migrated from a large 3rd party vendor-based team in Bangalore to a permanent and contractor-composed team across the US, UK and India and growing a new regional people manager for a web-based Credit Risk portal product including a number of key hires• Introduced and implemented a panel-style interview format, producing rubrics, question banks, and signal points for interviewers to benchmark against, leading the panel & conducting hiring manager interviewsOverall:• Led a team of 20+ captive & vendor staff in India across SWE, QA and BA functions – 3 direct reports • System owner of a large and rich web-based product with a user base across front, middle & back offices • Managed a CHF 2m budget annually and platform of 3,600+ users including Level 3 support function • Accelerated Agile Scrum delivery methodology adoption • Designed a transition from a monolithic architecture and legacy technology stack to modern standards: Microservices, Cloud adoption, Containerisation, UI & service layer separation, horizontal scalability • Technology stack: Java, JEE, JSP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Sybase ASE SQL, GIT, Jenkins & TeamCity -
Software Engineering Manager, Real-Time Intraday Credit-Checking Platform (Vp)Credit Suisse Jan 2014 - Apr 2022London, England, United KingdomKey achievements:• Managed the successful promotion of 2 software engineers from AVP to VP level• Delivered a new, easily extensible API for a low-latency credit-checking platform, utilising Google Protocol Buffers to easily on-board a wider portfolio of trade types across FX and other OTC Derivatives asset classes• Delivered increased availability for a bare metal-deployed low latency credit-checking platform, moving from 97% to 99.97% to support weekend FX tradingOverall:• Led and developed a diverse team of up to 17 across SWE, QA and BA including people managers in 4 global locations: UK, Poland, Switzerland and India • System owner and lead of a low-latency (sub 5ms), highly available, globally distributed, mission-critical credit-checking platform deployed to bare metal across 8 global data centres • Followed an Agile Scrum delivery methodology, following a transition from traditional Waterfall • Championed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles for reducing team toil, improving platform stability, availability, performance, monitoring, capacity management and evolution • Set technical direction including increasing availability and automation, reducing manual operation, reducing transaction latencies and cloud adoption for microservices • Product coverage across OTC Derivatives including FX & managed a CHF 2.9m budget annually • Technology stack: Java, Oracle Coherence, Sybase ASE SQL, ITRS Geneos, GIT, Jenkins & TeamCity -
Software Engineering Manager & Analyst / Software Engineer (Avp)Credit Suisse Apr 2011 - Dec 2013London Area, United Kingdom• Led a team of 5 and built POCs for a Data Service Layer for a wider Risk Engine Framework platform • Delivered the first component of a target-state modularisation for Credit Risk model back-testing • Technology stack: Java, Oracle Coherence, Sybase ASE SQL, Subversion SVN -
Full Stack Analyst / Software Engineer (Avp)Credit Suisse Sep 2004 - Mar 2011London, England, United Kingdom• Worked in a team of 8 to migrate a legacy PowerBuilder client application to a modern web-based, 3-tier application including extensive Sybase stored procedure work • Collaborated with Credit Risk Management business to integrate new requirements into the product • Platform supported 2,000 users across Front, Middle and Back-office functions • Platform supported credit limit and excess management workflows and Counterparty maintenance along with Trade, Position and Customer Account information as well as rich Credit Risk Reporting functionality • Operated across all aspects of Software Development Lifecycle including managing changes to Production and Level 3 support • Technology stack: Java, JEE, JSP, JavaScript/DHTML, HTML/CSS, Sybase ASE SQL, Microsoft MS SQL Server -
Software Developer / It ConsultantCmg Jul 1999 - May 2004London, United KingdomDuring my time with this leading consultancy, I delivered a wide range of interesting projects primarily designing and building web-based applications.• Joined leading IT consultancy CMG as part of a graduate programme in the ERP space, focussing on SAP HR • Within Advanced Technology, I undertook a variety of web-based and mobile platform Java projects • Technology stack: Java, J2ME, J2EE, JSP, JavaScript/DHTML. HTML/CSS, MS SQL Server
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Kalpesh P. works for Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd
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Kalpesh P.'s current role is Back Office Change Team Lead.
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Kalpesh P. attended The University Of Manchester (Ex Umist).
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Kalpesh P.'s colleagues are Kamaljit Chouhan, Chris Shepherd, Jean-Baptiste Aussourd, Nick Miller, Masayo Deschenaux-Oishi, Neil Davis, Ak Daniel Agudah.
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