Namrata Gandhi-
Summary
Accomplished technology professional with 15 years of experience in guiding teams through all software development phases from initial feasibility analysis, requirement gathering and analysis to technology selection, conceptual design, development, testing, implementation and support . Leverages passion and tenacious problem-solving capabilities to design and develop innovative cost effective, high performance,mission critical systems for front office trading applications. Key Core Competencies include developmentof functional and technical specifications, Technology evaluation and selection, Technology architecture and integration, User interface design, Change and release management, Team Establishment and management,
Customer centric approach, Problem Resolution, Functional, Technical, Design and Performance reviews.
Experience
CTO at ShereIt Pvt. Ltd
April 2015-July 2016
ShereIt is one of the top ten global fintech startups as selected by SBC Singapore.
It is focused on socializing stock trading in the Indian and Singaporean space.
My role involves getting business and functional inputs on the product, Tech design and development as well as team mentoring. Co-ordinating with tech partners like Microsoft and Neo4j for getting inputs on technology.
Technologies: Microsoft Azure, Neo4j, ASP.Net web service, Angular JS, PhoneGap, Ionic Framework.
Software Freelancer
October 2013-April 2015
Projects Accomplished
CTCL trading software for NSE FNO
CLIENT – CHOICE BROKERS
The project involved development of complete manual trading system for NSE FNO Exchange as well as development of strategies for automated trading.
The components developed are
NSE Interactive Gateway for interfacing with the exchange for transactions.
Risk Engine which served as order router as well as Risk manager
Basic GUI for administrator terminal as well as trader terminal to interface with Risk Engine
Market Data Dumper,
Excel Interfaces for trading and market data
The software was empaneled at the exchange and is running live
Charting Components
CLIENT – ICharts
NSE-EQ L1 level market data gateway
The project involved development of L1 market data gateway which would connect and take data from the exchange and deliver it to another process in a simple string format
NSE-FNO L1 level market data gateway
The project involved development of L1 market data gateway which would connect and take data from the exchange and deliver it to another process in a simple string format
Broadcast Manager
The project involved development of Broadcast Manager which would supply backfill, intraday backfill as well as real time data to the front end charting components.
Amibroker Interface
The project involved development of Amibroker Interface to Broadcast Manager
NinjaTrader Interface
The project involved development of NinjaTrader Interface to Broadcast Manager
MT4 Interface
The project involved development of MT4 Interface to Broadcast Manager
M4 Interface
The project involved development of M4 Interface to Broadcast Manager as well as customizing and white labelling M4 for Icharts
Pattern Scanner
The project involved development of Pattern Scanner, which would scan market data for occurrence of various defined patterns and would plot the patterns the graph and store the bitmaps into database table for delivery to web pages.
Sr. Software Architect at Financial Technologies Group
April 2009 - September 2013 (4 years 6 months)
• Listing the scope of the product by identifying the issues in legacy product, getting functional requirements from various stake holders and conceptualizing technical and functional design of the product suite.
•Technology evaluation and selection through extensive R&D and prototyping. • Designing the product by adapting various available open source technologies that best suited the needs of the product while reducing cost.
• Building technical team for ZEUS(product code name)
• Oversee designing of modules,
data flow structures and user interface designing along with the team.
• Oversee integrated testing
• Oversee product implementation and release management.
• Understand and analyse the issues that arise during user acceptance testing and provide solution and time/resource estimates
Sr.Project Manager at Financial Technologies Group
April 2007 - April 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Sr. Project Leader at Financial Technologies Group
April 2006 - April 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Project Leader at Financial Technologies Group
April 2005 - April 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Team Leader at Financial Technologies Group
April 2004 - April 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Technologies Group
April 2003 - April 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Software Engineer at Financial Technologies Group
April 2001 - April 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Programmer Trainee at Financial Technologies Group
June 2000 - April 2001 (11 months)
Projects
ZEUS
April 2007 to September 2013
ZEUS product suite provides trading and risk management facilities to various international exchanges like SMX(Singapore Mercantile Exchange) ,DGCX(Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange), BFX(Bahrain Futures Exchange) ,GBOT(Global Board of Trade),CSE(Colombo Stock Exchange).It is empanelled at CME(Chicago Mercantile Exchange).It operates as an Exchange provided hosted solution at SMX and BFX.ZEUS supports trading across equities ,commodities and currency segments at the same time adhering to different rules and regulations as well as user demands of the geography to which it caters. ZEUS provides a thick client application for traders and clients as well as a thin browser based solution.
ODIN
June 2000 to September 2013
ODIN™ - the Multi-Exchange, Multi-Currency Front Office trading and risk management system – makes trading on multiple markets easier through the use of a single application. It incorporates appealing features and works on advanced technology which facilitates higher accessibility, ensuring speedy performance and advanced risk management. ODIN™, Financial Technologies' flagship product, has been the ‘Trading Platform of Choice’ for several years powering over 880 leading brokerage houses with more than 80% market share.
Skills & Expertise
C#,WPF,WCF,C++,MS VC++,MFC,MySQL,SQL,SQLite,STL
HTML 5,CSS3,JavaScript,PHP
Education
University of Mumbai
B.E, Electronics and Telecommunication, 1995 – 1999
Certifications
Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Mobile Devices and Clouds
Coursera
