Amitabha Kundu
New York,NY
Summary
Dynamic leader with a proven track record at Morgan Stanley with a Passion for Investment Management Front-to-Back Market Abuse Risk/Compliance Functions Automation, expertly blending project management and Java/Python frameworks to revolutionize Non-financial Risk technology and Front office guideline surveillance. Spearheaded the automation of market abuse risk monitoring and compliance applications, showcasing agile methodologies and machine learning . Achieved transformative outcomes in a complex, multi-asset environment.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
VP - Non Financial Risk Technology
Morgan Stanley
NYC, NY
07.2022 - Current
- Implemented a robust, scalable market abuse risk monitoring program based on UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation for investment management.
- Lead the end-to-end implementation of 16+ Market Abuse Risk Scenarios (like Abusive Squeeze, Insider Dealing, Ramping, Spoofing, and layering) that include surveillance of employee and client trades across 9 lines of business, involving 80+ investment teams running 400+ investment strategies.
- Implemented transformative automation in areas such as Cherry Picking, Short-Term Gain/Loss, and Parking, Affiliate Trade (10F3) monitoring in compliance with the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
- Developed advanced data quality and governance frameworks with machine learning technologies.
- Expertise in security architecture, design and integration with leading RegTech vendors, such as ComplianceAlpha, Nasdaq, TradingHub, StarCompliance, RedOak, NICE Actimize, Collibra DQ, and RegEd.
- Oversaw annual tech budget of 2M USD for a global team and Reg Tech vendors.
- Possesses extensive hands-on experience in Java, Spring, RESTful APIs, Hibernate, Python Pandas, Scikit-learn, Scipy frameworks.
VP Front Office Guideline Surveillance
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
07.2006 - 07.2022
- Led initiatives to automate complex multi-asset, fund-of-fund, and ESG investing guidelines. This involved managing the integration of multiple front-office OMS/EMS systems, including Aladdin (BlackRock), Charles River, Sentinel (Ion), and FlexTrade
- Provided Program level leadership for Compliance Workstream for critical Morgan Stanley Asset Management(MSIM) & Eaton Vance(EV) Merger to create a 1.2 Trillion Organization
- Design & Architect Fault Tolerant Front Office Compliance Application for state of art Sentinel Pre/Post Trade guideline monitoring tool. Lead FX Exposure monitoring(FX Connect), Broker Check Automation and Generate Constraint Based Trade Optimization ideas for client mandates based on Representative/model Accounts. Leverage Java , Spring, JAXB, Google Protocol Buffers,Hazelcast, MQ, CPS Messaging combination to architect solution.
- Responsible for maintaining the Production Environment for 50 plus monolith + microservices across 80+ windows and linux servers in segregated dev/qa/uat/prod zones.
Education
Data Science BootCamp -
Rutgers
01.2018
Master's in Mechanical Engg - Robotics
BITS
Pilani, IndiaSkills
- Project management
- Microservices architecture
- Skilled in Java frameworks
- Cloud security architecture
- Data strategy development
- RESTful API integration
- Agile methodologies expertise
- Python Data Science frameworks/Machine learning
Timeline
VP - Non Financial Risk Technology
Morgan Stanley
07.2022 - Current
VP Front Office Guideline Surveillance
Morgan Stanley
07.2006 - 07.2022
Data Science BootCamp -
Rutgers
Master's in Mechanical Engg - Robotics
BITS