Baoke Buck Xu

Prime Financing & Securities Lending Platforms (2013-2021)

• Led the buildout of front-office trading platforms for Securities Lending, supporting global equity and fixed income desks. Delivered high-performance systems for trade management, locates, and funding dashboards, handling billions in daily notional flow.
• Introduced analytic and visualization tools providing real-time funding, liquidity, and collateral utilization transparency, directly improving financing optimization and trader decision support.
• Led development of the Agency Lending Cash Reinvestment Middle Office platform, improving settlement accuracy, funding readiness, and operational stability across counterparties.

Data, Analytics & Infrastructure (2021-Present)

• Headed the Prime Analytics group, delivering a new asynchronous data processing framework to support stress testing, intraday PnL, and balance sheet analytics.
• Implemented Citi’s Prime Data Strategy platform leveraging Apache Pinot, Trino, and Kafka, providing real-time data pipelines for funding, risk, and performance analytics.
• Designed and owned data readiness microservices (Java, SpringBoot) to ensure accurate, decoupled delivery of funding and settlement signals — reducing cross-desk data dependencies.
• Partnered with global quant and risk teams to integrate Market Quantitative Models (MQA) directly into production systems, enabling model-driven trading insights and automation.
• Observability & Operational Intelligence (2021–Present)
• Built and managed a unified observability platform for 30+ Prime, FDC (Futures, Derivatives & Clearing) applications — delivering real-time monitoring of trading workflows and funding pipelines.
• Implemented Grafana, Loki, and Mimir-based stack for proactive liquidity and margin exception management, reducing downtime and operational losses.

User Experience & Analytics Tools (2021-Present)

• Initiated a BI-enabled UI framework (React, TypeScript, AG-Grid, Hi-Chart) for front-office analytics — enabling visualization of collateral efficiency, funding cost, and PnL attribution.
• Significantly reduced reliance on static/manual reporting through real-time dashboards and on-demand analytics

Leadership & People

• Manage and mentor global teams across Prime Analytics, Data Infrastructure, Observability, and UI Engineering.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and accountability, improving talent retention and delivery velocity.
• Partner closely with PMs, traders, and risk managers to translate business objectives into technical deliverables with measurable financial impact.