System Design
Resume:
Sudhakar Vippu Ranganathan
**********@*****.***
Summary
• Good experience in software design(functional and OOD) and development in
Capital Markets and Banking domain
• Developed low latency- high performance financial systems and real-time
applications involving high volumes of transactions using C/C++, Sybase, STL,
Design Patterns, Java, PL/SQL, IPC, and Network Programming.
• Managerial skills, Problem solving abilities and effectiveness in working
independently or in team.
• Strong technical background and project management skills, with ability to adapt to
new technologies and applications proficiently.
• Good analytical, troubleshooting, debugging skills and proven ability to discern
critical from minor problems
Education:
• Masters in Computer Applications from University of Pune
Computer Skills:
• Languages : C/C++, Java, PL/SQL
• Environments Worked in : Solaris, AIX, Linux, Unix
• Scripting : UNIX Shell, Perl, ASP, JSP
• Complex Events Technologies : APAMA, Sybase CEP
• Databases : Sybase, Oracle
• Networking : Socket Programming, IPC, TCP/IP
• Tools : Jira, SVN,Web sphere, Actuate, CVS,
Clear Case/Clear Quest, Clarify, Truechange, Make,
and Symbolic debuggers, Jam, Panther
• Methodologies : OOAD
Experience Summary:
Electronic and Algorithmic Trading
Consultant
Morgan Stanley, Montreal Sep 12 – Nov 13
Responsibilities:
• Analyse business requirements, develop, configure order routing systems using FIX
messaging for FIX-DMA/MSET team
• Applying limit checks on orders(single/aggregate) and Market Data Connectivity
• Handled Client On boarding and Vendor Certifications for Exchange Connectivity
and close interaction with the business units
Team Size: 5
Technologies/Tools: FIX 4.2, Unix, Perl, Shell scripting, C++, Sybase, Perforce, RCS
Data Analytics and Custom Model Development Oct 11 – Aug 12
Consultant
CapGemini – Transunion
TransUnion is the third-largest credit bureau in the United States, which offers credit-related
information to potential creditors. The project involves creating customized model for
Transunion clients like financial institutions, mortgage companies or insurances.
Responsibilities:
• Analyse business requirements and develop system requirement specifications and
design specifications
• Work with developers to convert system designs and technical specifications into
program code
• Development of various tools for automatic Model code generation and unit test
cases.
Team Size: 20
Technologies/Tools: C, C++, Unix, Sybase, Unix Shell Scripts,Perl, Clearcase/ClearQuest
Trade Server & Position Keeping Systems (PKS) Jun 10 – Aug 11
Assistant Vice President
Deutsche Bank – Global Equities & Derivatives, NYC
Trade Server is used to enter trades into our Risk system (Imagine). It supports products like
Equities, Derivatives and Fixed income securities.
PKS maintains positions across Instrument, Currency, Accounts, and Strategies dimensions
and projects position data based on Trade and Settlement Date for both Intraday and
Historical activity. Sybase Complex Events Processing (CEP) technology is used to provide a
high performance, robust and scalable data service tracking inventory across Trading, Client
and Inter-Company accounts for all Equity business functions.
Responsibilities
• Ownership, Design, Develop, Enhance and Support the Trade Server
• Identified existing performance bottlenecks for Trade Server & delivered solutions
for these bottlenecks
• Involved in designing and developing interfaces to CEP and external systems and
Reconciliation Reports between CEP and Database.
• Work with database administrators to supplemental tables in the Derivatives database
for use by Interfaces and Reports
Team Size: 10
Technologies/Tools: C/C++, Java, CEP, Agile, Sybase, Unix, Jira, SVN
Trade Clearing Hub Sep 07 – Jun 10
Assistant Vice President
State Street Global Markets, Boston USA
Trade Clearing Hub is a real-time clearing system based on the APAMA event processing
platform that would perform the clearing activities required by State Street as a self-clearing
broker.
Responsibilities
• Design and Architecture of the whole trade flow.
• Developed solutions for Portfolio Reports for the Funds
• Involved in designing and developing the interfaces to Apama and external systems
• To increase the message writing performance adding TimesTen as the database cache
layer
• Involved in requirement gathering, design and development for connection to market
data feeds from Bloomberg to oracle database.
• Designs and executes end to end system tests of new installations and/or software
prior to release to minimize failures and impact to business and end users
• Responsible for resolution, communication, and escalation of critical technical issues
• Interprets client needs, assessing the full requirements; identifies solutions to non-
standard tasks/queries
Team Size: 12
Technologies/Tools: Agile, FIX,Linux, Unix Shell Scripts, APAMA,C/C++, .NET, Java
LRP and SIAC Driver
Senior Developer
Hold Brothers Online Investments NYC Dec 06 – Sep
07
Liquid Replenishment Points (LRP) are pre-determined price points at which electronic
trading briefly converts to auction market trading in NYSE. Worked on creating a new LRP
driver where the LRP feeds are sent to Consolidated Quotes system from which it’s getting
disseminated to Day Traders software GrayBox.
SIAC Driver receives multiple CQS (Consolidated Quotes System) and CTS (Consolidated
Tape System) Feeds from NYSE. The existing SIAC Driver is a plain message switch and it
does not keep a stock cache we can use for symbol clean ups or automatic refreshes on the
line (removing cross/lock conditions on a timed basis). The new stock cache is built using
hash-map STL data structure to do symbol cleanups and refreshes.
Responsibilities
• Involved in designing and developing the interfaces to SIAC and client systems
• System and incorporated the parsing logic for the LRP Feeds Changed the existing
quotes system to accommodate LRP Feeds.
• Involved in the designing and developing the multi-process system and symbol
cache/refreshes.
Team Size: 2
Technologies/Tools: VC++, .NET
Subcustodian Billing and Depository System Jul 05 – Nov 06
Project Lead/ Senior Project Co-ordinator
State Street Bank & Trust / I-flex Solutions, Boston USA
SSBT provides custodial services on behalf of various funds (pension funds, public funds
and mutual funds) that invest in markets across the globe. If a fund is invested in a non-US
market, a sub custodian will be appointed to provide custodial services to the fund in that
market. These sub custodians create invoices for the services provided by them to SSBT. This
project involves re-engineering of existing FoxPro based applications Boston Light, Cape
Blanco and SMIS to a new Java/C++/Oracle based single Subcustodian Billing System.
Responsibilities:-
• Interact with various business areas and stakeholders to identify, define and document
complex business requirements and source system data elements
• Worked on Requirement Specifications, Technical Design and implemented
interfaces and parsed feeds like exchange rates and corporate action using C++
design patterns.
• Onsite-offshore co-ordination and overseen systems design and implementation of
most complex design components like Cleanup and Mark to Market processes.
• Reviewed test plans/test cases and tested new installations and software prior to
release to minimize failures and impact to business and end users.
Team Size: 18
Technologies/Tools: PL/SQL, Java, C++, Actuate, Oracle 9i, Solaris, Connect: Direct,
Clearcase/Clearquest, Autosys
FIX Gateway & Market Data Feeds Apr 03 – Jun 05
Senior Developer
Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange (Tadawul)/I-flex Solutions Chennai/Riyadh
The Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol is a standard for the interchange of
information between participants in a market or exchange. A gateway is responsible for
converting the data sent from one Bank’s system into a format that is understood by the
exchange’s trading system. A Generic gateway framework is developed in order to reduce
time to create/add new gateways for other systems.
Responsibilities:-
• Work with internal and external business units to determine needs and specifications
for enhancements to existing system
• Support, Maintenance and Enhancement of the complete Stock Exchange products
written in C/C++.
• Designed and developed the parser and messaging framework using C++, design
patterns (Abstract, Singleton, and Strategy) and STL libraries.
• Worked on improving performance for Market Data Feeds or tickers which is sent
to data vendors like Reuters, Bloomberg and to investment banks which actively
trade with this exchange
• Worked on improving the performance of trading engine as the data structures
changed from list to heap based priority queues.
Team Size: 12
Technologies/Tools: C/C++ AIX AS-400, FIX, Unix Shell Script CVS
European Adapters Jun00– Mar 03
Technical Member
ADP India Hyderabad / London UK
The Euroclear Adapter provides a two-way interface between a host system (GLOSS – Global
Settlement System) and the Euroclear Operations Center via the Radiant/SwiftNet system.
The Adapter automates message generation, reply processing and communication with
Euroclear and enables full straight through processing for all securities settlement instructions
sent to, and reports received from Euroclear.
Responsible for Design and Implementation of
• Sending messages to Euroclear through a file transmitter using C++, TCP/IP
• A parser to split the report and check its validity before it is entered into the host
database.
Team Size: 7
Technologies/Tools: C/C++, TCP/IP, Solaris, Sybase, Clarify, True Change
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