Viraat Sowani Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City

• Lead the Global Integration, Projects and Implementation teams for 360T ECN clients across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions• Head the 360T Client Advisory Services and Support teams across the Americas• Spearhead the mapping and unification of 360T disclosed and GTX ECN platforms into a single entity structure. The company was able to extract synergies post the unification process that led to a successful increase in the bottom line growth• Lead the strategy committee for GTX platform’s long-term project prioritizations and quarterly planning• Manage all technical and system information requests by external stakeholders such as Auditors, Client Legal, Regulatory and Risk teams• Primary point of escalation for all production and UAT client issues including Networking and Connectivity, Market data, Orders and Post Trade Messaging

• Lead the technical integration and onboarding process for API and GUI clients worldwide into the GTX production environment. Focuson integration solutions via the FIX, GTTP, ITCH and other binary protocols. Handle post trade messaging via XML, FIX, SFTP andFTP solutions• Designed and led custom projects, which involve migration of legacy customer configurations to more efficient internal setuparchitectures, resulting in significant cost saving for GTX• Developed technical documentation for both Client and Server releases and managed all communication with internal and externalstakeholders. Led prioritization and review of existing businesses and technical projects• Developed and maintained API specifications based on open protocols (e.g. FIX, SBE) and implement system enhancements in orderto extend 360TGTX’s technical service-offerings• Led the stress testing runs for new client/ server releases and escalate bugs to the development team to ensure a seamless transition toproduction systems• Spearheaded extensive client conformance testing to certify to GTX API's requirements. Interface with client FIX development teamsto manage and setup liquidity taker and liquidity maker API configurations• Oversaw technical onboarding of the GTX Prime broker intermediated SEF initiative with various third party agencies such as theDTCC and NFA• Debug production trade issues using UNIX to analyze system logs and work with clients to achieve resolution. Interact with clientNetworking teams using tools like WireShark and UNIX Capstats to debug networking issues and come up with solutions

Greater New York City Area

• Partnered with client development teams to manage and setup FIX API configurations for a variety of clients from retail white label broker customers to institutional liquidity providers. Perform extensive FIX conformance tests and recommend technical solutions to ensure a seamless transition to live trading for a client. • Support and troubleshoot FIX users on a day to day basis on a number of trading and connectivity issues.• Responsible for end to end client onboarding and tailoring customized liquidity solutions per client requirements.• Worked with third party vendors on various STP integration solutions including XML queues to test new Swap Execution Facility (SEF) identifiers. Created FIX drop copy setups for clients in development and production environments.• Worked on the onboarding activities for the integral SEF platform. Oversaw the first successful SEF trade on the platform. Created and maintain technical onboarding documentation for SEF.

Greater New York City Area

• Contributed to the marketing and sales effort to successfully launch a session-based corporate bond ECN platform• Daily responsibilities include analyzing secondary market trading activity and interfacing closely with sell side dealers to gauge concentrations of liquidity. • Track and price single-name CDS names across Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Technology, Media and Retail sectors to come up with fair mid levels for trading. • Responsible for developing a multi-stage algorithm logic and process flow for a bond odd lot platform designed to manage tail risk in the trading books of major US corporate bond traders

Responsible for reconciling high volume Sri Lanka Nostro accounts on a daily basis.

Pune Area, India

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Mathematical Finance

Masters Of Business Administration, International Business

Bachelor Of Engineering, Information Technology