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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Hyderabad Area, India

- Hiring, on-boarding and training a rock-star team of Data Engineers, Data Scientists, BI Developers and Data Governance Analysts.- Prioritizing and managing deliverables for NYSE Regulatory reporting and Billing analytics.- Developing NYSE Billing, Tier reports and analytics.- Streamlining DW job operations and production support.- Building data foundation layer for analytics.- Supporting NYSE metadata repository with data definitions on reference data and market data.- Building team competency in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).- Hands-on with coding, automation, data delivery operations and support.

New York, New York, United States

- Managed data engineering team that transformed data and built pipeline to deliver data to Thesys CAT and FINRA for industrywide regulatory requirement as per SEC Rule 613.- Built ETL pipelines and Data Lake, working with petabytes of data.- Developed ETL code in SQL, Shell Scripting and Python.

New York, New York, United States

- Led the platform development by managing internal teams and external vendor. Prioritized releases in accordance to yearly platform plan while adhering to companywide upstream or downstream initiatives. - Contributed heavily in designing and writing requirements for the development of 40 surveillances covering complex scenarios like spoofing and layering, trade-through, lock-cross and predictive profiling.- Studied, understood & documented mapping amongst 5 market tick & 54 reference data feed amounting to billions of messages which would be consumed by alert-rule engine of the surveillance platform. - Architected and launched the MS Sharepoint repository for all NYSE Regulation specification documents.- As a Program Manager delivered key metrics statistics to Chief Regulatory Officer on weekly basis and liaised with legal counsel, analysts, developers, testers and data engineers on program roadmap.

New York, New York, United States

- Led the Quality Assurance effort for functional testing of 40 Surveillances for Project Blackbird- Used prior expertise on Equities and Options trading to quickly grasp and understand the Surveillances- Gained thorough understanding of all Reference data, Market data and Post-Trade data- Continuously pushed the boundaries to achieve better quality software with effective effort in aggressive timelines- Facilitated, adhered to and achieved department goal of 100% test automation- Participated and understood the non-functional testing – performance test, integration, retro-runs and regression- Conducted daily Triage amongst Users, Developers and QA and worked very closely with all participants to ensure minimal rework- Guided the team and automated about 200 test cases in 2 months for CTPx, working closely with tools team. Got appreciation from everyone including the CTO and President of NYSE.- Led the effort of testing enhanced ticker module in LCA and the DMM Notices distribution. Gave demo to all stake holders and received accolades for thorough understanding of the application

Piscataway, New Jersey

- Founded Neoware, Inc. in year 2011 to cater to financial services clients.- Achieved consistent year over year revenue growth from $60K in 2014 to $500K in 2017.- Was revenue funded and operated profitably.

Mumbai Area, India

Second venture, this time in India and in Digital Transformation space. SecretSauce provided four digital services: product development, social media, content and ecommerce.- Recognized the vast opportunity in Content offering and pivoted the company's focus towards Content.- Grew the content delivery team from 1 person to 12 people team.- Re-aligned company’s value proposition to existing clients. Expanded services offering to full content services including: catalog management, copy-writing, audio/video and images.- Increased revenues from ₹ 1.2 million to ₹ 6 million and helped SecretSauce achieve profitability.- Worked on multiple startups ideas including rickshawale.com (the first UBER of India).- Got firsthand experience with and practiced the Indian jugaad (hustle) of getting things done: from operational needs to bureaucratic requirements while respecting local laws and customs.

Greater San Diego Area

First technology consulting entrepreneurial venture. Seer Group offered consulting services and technology solutions as well as maintained client's existing software, provided quality assurance services and provided complete end-to-end integration services for web applications.- Starting with personal savings of $3000 grew the company to $1 million in revenues in 3 years and operated the company profitably from the first year.- Running Seer demanded hands-on involvement in all aspects of business development including: hiring & building teams, pitching to clients, negotiating contracts, establishing business plan & strategy, and maintaining finances. Most importantly, built strong client relationships which generated repeat business.- Achieved 100% satisfaction report and continuous repeat business from all our clients - Cardinal Health, UPS, Broadridge, Ernst & Young, Citigroup and Quintiles.

Greater San Diego Area

Led an eight-member team delivering internationalization of MedStation product in German, Turkish and Spanish.- Resolved more than 300 bugs in less than 60 calendar days using agile methodology.- Suggested and implemented creative process that reduced development time by 90%.- Led the effort of code inspection of Veri5, a handheld mobile product, which helped the client decide on discontinuing Veri5's further marketing and sales.

Mumbai Area, India

- Selected as member of RFID Center of Excellence. - Designed architecture and implemented Proof of Concepts for RFID solutions for prospective clients. - Learned the concepts of software management process and designing software solutions.- Coded extensively in VC++ using Win32 and MFC, designed database - SQL Server and developed applications on MVC architecture.- Build a RFID Middleware from ground up and developed APIs for multiple interfaces.- Wrote low level code in C to build a connector between RFID system and SAP - Received accolades for this work from then CEO of the Embedded System Group - Manab Sen.- Used and learned Design Patterns in software programming.- Prepared pre-sales decks and documentation of solutions for clients. Planned and organized many fun events for 2000+ employees as a member of "Fun@Work - Funsters" Group.

Mumbai Area, India

- Taught Embedded Systems course to students as a visiting faculty for one semester.- Course included: Real Time Operating System Design 'RTOS', Software programming in Assembly Language - ALP and in High Level Language - C, Serial communication - interrupts, priorities and nesting, Programming LCD systems and Lab work.

Graduate Student Researcher

Coding, Simulation and Synthesis of Interval Trigonometric Functions on FPGA (Embedded Systems) - As a part of final year industry project.

Be / B.Tech - Bachelors Of Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Programming, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Activities and Societies: (2003) President of 4 student chapters, (2002-03) General Secretary of Student's Council - youngest ever.

Hsc - Higher Secondary School Certificate, Mathematics And Computer Science, 12

Ssc - Secondary School Certificate, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education And Teaching, 10

Activities and Societies: Boys Scout School Captain, Member of Athletics (100 and 4x100) Team, Member of Computer Programming.