Rahi Racharla

Bangalore, KA ****** C: +91-887******* H: +91-966******* adhdto@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Multi-talented passionate hands-on Technology Director, Architect and FinTech Executive consistently rewarded for success in planning, building and delivering the complex real time systems using right technologies and good practices including open sources to achieve business objectives at the pace that is required to be pioneer for the organization.

Built many FinTech low latency trading and settlement products (Capital markets, Commodities, OTC) from ground up for global reach using Java, Python, C++, low level messaging system, UI frameworks in record time to corner new business opportunities.

Designed and Implemented SOA components, event driven components to build scalable, resilient systems while employing SOLID techniques and ensuring “Clean Code” and “Clean Architecture” were put in place.

Built and mentored teams of sizes of 250+ across the globe, and also engaged in captive and right-souring model for elasticity and cost benefit with right processes for quality and communication for delivery.

Hands-on architect and product engineering for Digitisation and Cloud based solutions (AWS, HCI)

IT Governance, Compliance and interaction with regulatory bodies

Proven track setting up infrastructure, SOC, HCI, Hybrid Cloud with AWS, IT Operations & audit controls.

Conceptualised and built auction trading platform fetching 25+ million per annum USD in additional revenue.

Worked with few start-ups and many large organisations allowing me to learn and apply the techniques of the agile delivery (PoC to MVP to full-fledged product) with proven practices (complete SDLC vision, metrics based processes, CI/CD, communication) for effective delivery for the businesses.

Skills

Technologies

System architecture for large real time systems

Low latency & High-throughput trading systems

Blockchain (CBDC, Digital Assets, KYC)

OOP, Java, C#/C++, J2EE, Python, Smalltalk

Messaging system (Solace, NATs, RabbitMQ)

RDBMs, NoSQL Databases (Ex: MongoDB)

PoC, MVP and Open Source Technologies

TCP, UDP, Rest, WebSocket, FIX

Web / UI based applications & Building APIs

Cloud based solutioning

CI/CD, Operational excellency using tools

Functional

Translating business opportunities to IT solutions

FinTech (Capital markets, Commodities, OTC)

Digitisation Initiatives (UX/UI, AI, SEO, APIs)

Team building & Team mentoring (Globally)

Project and Program management

Technology Innovation and IT Strategy

Complete SDLC (Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall)

Design thinking for HA, Resiliency & Scalability

Working with Business/product heads and the peers

Excellent written and oral communication

Metrics based solutions delivery process

Work History

Founding Technology Executive/Solutions Architect, 09/2018 to Current

Exvillage Software solutions (Start-up) – Bangalore, India, Karnataka

Spearheaded in building right architecture for distributed low latency platform for crypto exchanges, payment gateways with implication engine for liquidity that allows adding new products like cookie-cutter template based for the speed of the delivery, and built supply chain and KYC based system using Blockchain technology. (Java, Java-RX, Vert.x-Java, C#, C++ and messaging frameworks NATs, Solace, RabbitMQ, Reactive, Electron)

Worked closely with customers, cross-functional teams, business heads and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects in a very cost effective manner.

Built the world class team that is nimble and adaptive in building technological solutions. Ensure team stuck to "Clean Code" principles, and employed development tools like BitBucket, Jira - agile, Kanban, Trello, Slack, confluence, fisheye, teamcity, ansible, docker etc and integrated them at enterprise level.

Build settlement and CBDC system using blockchain technologies and other open source tech stack

Applied technologies like Java, C#, Rust, Ethereum (Solidity), custom blockchain (Java, Go), Mongo, MySQL, RabbitMQ, NATs, Solace etc.

Architected Web/UI based systems that connect via Rest/WebSocket/Binary APIs using ReactJS, Electron, HTML5/CSS, Switft-3 and Kotlin.

Designed and implemented system security and data privacy assurance.

Conceptualised and implemented infrastructure using HCI, Cloud and BareMetal servers

Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability.

Technology budget and product strategy

Multi Commodity Exchange, 01/2016 to 08/2018

CIO – Mumbai, India, Karnataka

Responsible, as Chief Technology officer for one of the largest Commodity exchanges, for designing and implementing cutting edge solutions using right technology for the trading exchange, clearing & settlement, electronic warehousing, risk, regulatory compliance and surveillance systems.

Architected and implemented e-warehousing system that runs in the cloud using Java,Vaadin, Mongo, ActiveMQ.

Worked with cross-functional teams, MD and committees to align business vision with technology strategy.

Responsible for laying out and executing overall technology road map, technology alignment with business targets, infrastructure design and implementation, improvements. During my tenor, we upgraded the solutions, adapted right technology for efficiency and productivity, implemented state of the art DR & BCP, virtualization using HCI (Hybrid cloud) that saved time in terms of time to market, and cut down the operational costs by half.

Hands-on implemented new product called “Options” after due diligence and customer feedback.

Worked with peers and cross-functional heads to understand needs across the board, collaborated to improve market share, enhanced technology platforms, and worked together to accelerate development of solutions across all segments.

Working with CXOs and the board for the new initiatives and program management of key projects.

Worked with regulatory bodies and the company boards to help with organizational and IT governance

Explored various PoC (Proof of Concept)s for collaborative settlement systems

Executive Director, Technology, APAC - Architect, 08/2014 to 12/2015

JP Morgan Chase – Bangalore, Bangalore, India, Karnataka

Responsible for hands-on building strategic core OMS (order Management System) for equity and derivatives trading systems that replaced previously existing legacy systems to cope up with large volumes, reduce costs and paving way to move on to newer and better technology stack.

Hands-on involvement in design, development, deployment and support of Equity trading systems for APAC region, and saved costs by few millions of USD in licensing costs.

Work closely with global stakeholders to define and deliver core services for defining and development core services platform

Participate in building core services team from ground up in India

Introduced Time Series data analytics for higher ROI that server 750k users

Mentoring team with architectural principles and have them focused on big pic for being able to support global base of customers and enabling add new functionality/features at quicker pace

Technology Director & Systems Consultant, 09/2010 to 08/2014

HCL Technologies Ltd – Bangalore, India, Karnataka

Personally Designed, Developed and supported an end-to-end "Auction Trading" platform to allow various asset classes to be traded thru auction matching as and when demand arises. This fetched additional revenue streams to Tullett-Prebon Holdings in the order of tens of millions of USD

Help Tullett-Prebon Holdings, UK to migrate and enhance their Electronic Trading platforms' development, QA and support work to HCL offshore teams for continuous development and enhancement of the trading and middle office systems with hands-on involvement in training the teams with the architectures and functionality

Executed this migration without any business disruption and time to market saving about 13 million USD per year for Tullett-Prebon, working closely with CIO, COO and business heads.

Architected and Implemented electronic RFQ (Request for Quote) module in record time to provide more trading opportunities for banks that trade with Tullett-Prebon .

Coordinated in developing a comprehensive offshore/outsourcing migration strategy for development, QA and maintenance streams, knowledge transfer and offshore transition task management, communication process and executed the same to the perfection.

Implemented many processes to stream development, release and audit controls.

V.P-IT Development & Delivery Strategy/ Chief Architect, 10/1998 to 08/2010

Tullett Prebon Holdings, Inc – New York, NY, USA

Planned, Designed and implemented an electronic trading platform end-to-end with team members across the globe in the record time of 6 months going into production from conception. This product increased the revenue by 25% in matter of months due to introduction of more products to expand its presence in new areas

New system I architected and we built allowed Tullett-Prebon to take over the competition, increased revenue and allowed expanding market to help customers more avenues and instruments to trade with. These system moved Tullett-Prebon to move to number 1 position surpassing the competition

Worked closely with brokers, traders, quant people to design and implement new products at rapid pace.

Ensured that all the design principles followed to allow the products not to become legacy and can sustain for many years of change and growth.

Planned and built a large auto-matching system based on the customers input on various products that started fetching new revenues

Quickly migrated legacy platforms to strategic service oriented architecture platforms and played key role in Integration-architecture to work with the legacy system during migration without disrupting business during migration to better technology solutions

Implemented a process to streamline requirements coming from various business heads across globe to create transparency and helped in prioritizing based on need and ROI.

Built API around real time systems for financial institutions and banks to integrate for their trading needs.

Worked closely with regulators across the globe to be compliant in trading space

Successfully created outsourcing support for Tullett through various vendors with due process.

Sr. Solutions Architect/Manager, 08/1997 to 10/1998

DowJones Markets – Jersey City, USA, Canada, NJ

Coordinated with segment leaders to promote architectural goals and design concepts.

Built generic TCP/UDP communication layers that is portable across the platforms and support distributed computing at lightning speed and true multicasting using C++

Built Market Price feeds and trading system with SOLID principles using that messaging layer

As a team lead, designed end to end trading system for one of the prestigious exchanges. Fetched additional revenue of 2 million USD per year to DowJones by building white-labelled trading platforms.

System Architect & Core Technical Consultant, 07/1995 to 07/1997

General Reinsurnace – Stamford, CT, USA

As a consultant to General Reinsurance (from Pencom Systems), built customer relationship system that automated entire re-insurance policy using one data source and AI based component for quote generations. Built using entire system single handily to retire legacy system that is used by underwriting, investment, customer relationships departments and accounting departments situated in different locations across the globe.

Technical Project Leader, 08/1994 to 07/1995

Server Group, DMR-Trecom Business Systems – Milford, CT, USA

Designed and implemented distributed workers-comp system that is adapted by all the states in USA.

Designed and developed distributed replication database meeting the needs of this PAN USA systems.

This saved millions of USD to US government; and many papers (technical) published in magazines on the design

Technical Engineer - Sr, 04/1993 to 08/1994

Handy & Harman – Fairfield, CT, USA

Software Engineer, 05/1992 to 04/1993

Sun Microsystems – Milpitas, CA, USA

Intern Programmer-Data Centre, 08/1990 to 05/1992

West Chester University of Pennsylvania – West Chester, PA, USA

Implemented innovative systems for data collection, storage and management of student, tuition, curriculum, classes, faculty and expenses, alumni donation for University, as part of internship

Education

M. S: Computer Science, 05/1992

West Chester University Of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania, USA

Mechanical Engineering, 08/1988

KITS, Kakatiya University - Andhra Pradesh, India

Accomplishments

Published Technology Books on C++ and Java (in 2000)

Received Zinger techno-business award during IIM-A Leadership Simulation work shop - CEO perspective for Senior management

Was featured in GeneralReinsuance technology magazine for implementing AI based data clean up system by building unique platform with high scalability

Semaphore (Object Oriented UML company) and Persistence adapted my architecture for first ever OQL and Object-Query-Mapping implemented as part of the Pencom system

Implemented successfully first ever Implication Engine that enhances the liquidity by creating firm implied tradable prices giving tight liquidity for customers, and revenue increase to Tullett-Prebon

Implemented FRA (Forward Rate Agreement) matching system that was later on adapted by CME, USA.

Successfully migrated complete platform through right-sourcing without any glitch for improved efficiency and reduction in costs

Published articles in Silicon Valley magazine

Published white paper on blockchain, CBDC and crypto exchange technology

Additional Information

Building Java Enterprise Applications by Learning Tree

Service Oriented Architectures by Learning Tree

Involved in two technology start-up entities

Executive Program in IT: Strategies and Solutions by THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

CIO as Digital Business Strategist – IIM-B

Blockchain Strategy Programme by Oxford

Leadership Simulation work shop – CEO perspective for Senior management, IIM-A

IT Strategic Planning: Maximizing the Value of Your IT Investment by Learning Tree, USA

Total Quality Management by Handy & Harman

Migrating to .NET by Microsoft

Java world conferences for distributed computing in USA

C#/MS Dev seminars, MS SQL Server conferences

GIDS/Video conferences for many enterprise level tools

Cloud Connect

Udemy courses in Blockchain, Go, Rust

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