Rakesh Gidwani Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Jersey City, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Lead the engineering strategy for the data platform to enable access to a large variety of datasets for quant research and trading. Additionally, I also lead the technical program management practice that is responsible for the execution of initiatives across data, quant and trading systems.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Post the Jet.com acquisition, I led the integration of Walmart and Jet engineering systems such as payments gateway, supply chain systems integration, Inventory system etc. Additionally, I grew and managed the technical program management practice that was responsible for the execution of engineering initiatives across Jet/Walmart.

Hoboken, Nj - New Jersey

Led the initiatives to scale the engineering platform, and scale the engineering org. Started the technical program management practice that was responsible for managing large scale initiatives that spanned across business and engineering. Played a key role during the due-diligence process while Jet.com was being acquired by Walmart.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Manage Neeve Research’s largest multi-million dollar client ‘Barclays Capital’ and serve as a single point of contact • Recruit and manage the professional services team that consists of front-end, back-end, and full stack engineers.• Educate customers on the new X Platform features and API, and manage the adoption across different business units (Equities, & middle office) within the client organization.• Serve as the voice of the customer and gather feedback regarding the X Platform and other products of Neeve Research• Manage the product backlog for the Apex application (client-side extension on X) and prioritize based on strategic goals.• Engage in architectural discussions with equities and back-office teams at Barclays to design the high-performance equities electronic trading system• Conduct design reviews, code reviews (Java, Scala) and provide valuable feedback and set long-term best practices.• Introduced best practices such as – Zero Garbage Coding, TDD, Documentation Standards• Evaluated different open source technologies for designing the full-stack deployment and monitoring solution for the applications based on the X Platform • Collaborate closely with external vendors such as Solace, and Solarflare for integration with the X Platform.• Mentor and Coach junior team members and help them grow in their careers• Deliver presentations on various products and features to existing and prospective customers• Demonstrate the power and agility of the X Platform by developing POC applications for the prospective customers • Conduct market research, prepare business plans, and organize roadshows (meetups, conferences etc.) in an effort to increase X Platform awareness and new customer acquisition

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed a team of 4 to 7 on-shore and off-shore engineers, and was responsible for recruiting, mentoring and day to day people management.• Led the development of automated document confirmations workflow for FX Options (using Java, XML, MQ, Python, Drools, thunderhead - document repository, etc). Worked closely with the Operations, and Business Heads to design, architect & develop the various workflows• Coordinated the FX BackOffice Options Trading team in a cross functional multi-team project to migrate the firm's books and records from the Mainframe to the distributed system. The project not only involved understanding the technology across different systems, but also excellent coordination and collaboration across teams• Improved the performance of the FX trading system ten fold by using several performance monitoring and analysis tools to identify the inefficiencies in the trade processing engine and made several enhancements to the engine - Refactored Java classes, used Hibernate, Spring, added parallel processing engines, introduced ehcache, tuned sql queries• Executed the project to migrate the firm’s risk from various regional entities to the North America entity (regulatory requirement). The project involved designing & architecting several new workflows, coordinating data cleansing and migration, collaborating with at least a dozen teams (technology and business)• Designed and developed the Trade Reconciliation tool for business risk assessment to reconcile the trades across multiple systems (Front-Office, BackOffice, and Mainframe)• Provided Level 3 production support for FX back-office technology systems• Spearheaded the use of Agile development methodology in the FX technology division• Organized weekly Tech Forums to discuss various technology challenges, new open source technologies, current FX business events, etc.

New York, New York, Us

• Interacted with the Sales Representatives from FICC, Equities, Asset Management, PWM to understand the workflows for Client On-boarding, Provisioning, Authentication setup and built tools and automated workflows for efficient processing.• Collaborated with technology teams across the firm to understand their entitlement needs and help them design and implement policies (using GEL API, Servicebase API, XML, Multithreading etc.) that were scalable and in accordance with the firm’s information security guidelines.• Led the effort for the design and development of Client Identity Verification platform (using Struts framework, Servicebase API, Webservice, JMS, JDBC, Autosys, etc.). Businesses across the firm have adopted this platform as compliance standard.• Led the migration effort (OS, DB, Java, PERL, Build System upgrade, Servicebase upgrade etc.) for the Application Systems owned by Global Sales Technology. It involved collaborating across several tech teams (SAs, DBAs, Build Management team, release Management team, Operations) to complete the migrations before the firms EOL dates.• Designed and developed the Organizational Entity (OE) management workflow (using Servicebase API, JMS, JDBC,Multithreading, Struts Framework, XML etc.). An OE is a way for the firm to identify the external Institutions.• Automated the process to inactivate external users that have not accessed Goldman 360 for more than a year (using JDBC, Multithreading, Java Classes, JMS (used pub/sub model), Servicebase API etc).• Created a client-reporting tool (using JDBC, Struts framework, tomcat, Servicebase API etc) for the client-service-desk to provide reports based on request by external clients and internal businesses.• Collaborated with external vendors such as THE MARKETS and BONDHUB for integration, testing, and delivery of new features.• Provided Level 3 production support to the global sales technology team.

New York, New York, Us

• Designed, & developed the database security and regulatory compliance suite of applications for global businesses across Citi, resulting in millions of dollars savings in regulatory fines. The project involved front-end components (JSP’s, Servlets, & Java Beans), back-end services (Java, PERL, Shell), and database connectivity layer (JDBC, Hibernate)• Built tools for regulatory reporting, collaborated with external auditors & stakeholders to understand the regulatory requirements and ensure compliance with the requirements, demonstrating greater commitment from Citi towards it’s customers• Spearheaded the implementation of the database compliance standards at Citi businesses in London, and Asia-Pacific region• Advised co-workers on technical architecture & design, application performance improvement, database query analysis & Performance tuning, coding best practices resulting in higher quality of products delivered by the team• Maintained Project Plans, resources and task assignments in Plainview for ongoing and future projects and provide reports for the Sr. Management based on request resulting in predictable team performance

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Finance, & General Management

Doing Business In China Mba Program

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering