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Jay Gopalan

Jay Gopalan

Technology And Product Leader (AI/ML, FinTech)
Dallas,TX

Summary

Visionary leader with 28+ years of experience establishing, nurturing, and leading engineering talents and teams, driving product development, and operationalizing systems across diverse business verticals. Successfully leveraged expertise in strategy development and corporate vision to achieve outstanding results through a national and international team of engineers. Builds cutting-edge technology-focused engineering teams that consistently exceed expectations. Diversified background in engineering and operations management with an entrepreneurial mindset, creative problem-solving abilities, and cross-functional team collaboration. Demonstrates bottom-line orientation and offers innovative solutions to operational challenges while minimizing risk and maximizing performance. Expertise in transforming strategic plans into tactical initiatives for successful product launches. Combines business acumen with analytical depth to align operational efficiencies with corporate goals.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates

Skills

Generative AI Expertise

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Accomplishments

  • Part of core team, that achieved faster GTM for Netomi's Enterprise Customer Experience / Conversational AI products and helped Netomi's clients
  • Architected and implemented AI driven accelerators for NoblQ
  • Co-founded and built FinTech products at Fyniti
  • Co-founded and built S&L Capital Market broker dealer and became General Securities Principal (FINRA Series 7, 24 and 63)
  • Part of core team that scaled the engineering team from handful of engineers to 70+ engineers
  • Implemented measures to transform to make AI first company at NoblQ and Fyniti
  • Supervised team of 8 staff members to deliver fastest data processing stack at that time for BNY Mellon asset servicing
  • Achieved +70% productivity for engineering teams by leveraging AI effectively and helped ship solutions faster.

Work History

Head of CoE - AI

Nobl Q
Dallas, TX
08.2023 - Current
  • Leading technology and innovation initiatives as Head of CoE - AI.
  • Leveraging AI to drive efficiency improvements across the NoblQ.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize technology needs and opportunities.
  • Develop strategic plans to align tech initiatives with business goals.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
  • Fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the technology team.
  • Ensured the security and integrity of company data and systems through robust cybersecurity measures.

Co-founder

Fyniti Global Equities, LLC
Dallas, TX
10.2019 - 08.2023
  • Key business strategies, execute the vision, responsible for successful product launches
  • Product owner and architect and helped launch Fyniti trading platform, Fyniti IQ - Equity Research Platform and Fyniti Blocks
  • Managed hyper focused product and tech teams responsible for innovative products
  • Led the product dev using Applied AI, Blockchain, cloud etc.

Co-founder, General Securities Principal

S&L Capital Markets, LLC
Dallas, TX
10.2019 - 08.2023
  • Responsible for the overall vision for the firm
  • Managing and overseeing the regulatory compliance for the firm

VP of Technology

Netomi (formerly msg.ai)
New York, NY
07.2015 - 10.2019
  • Helped define the techno-product vision for the company and was part of the core team responsible for the valuation reaching up to $100M
  • Scaled the engineering team from a < 10 to more than 70
  • Designed and scaled technical systems to help the business to grow

Principal Architect, VP

BNY Mellon
04.2012 - 06.2015
  • Architected, developed high-volume, low latency systems for Data Science & AI/ML
  • Managed part of BNYM Asset Servicing Back-Office platform
  • Responsible for the Enterprise Reporting System (ERS), to optimize, scale (moving to the bank's internal cloud), and its adoption across teams

Vice President

Citigroup
06.2010 - 02.2012
  • Developed highly concurrent & low latency systems, cutting resource use by 75% and saved more than $1M in compute.
  • Architected and designed the PF Event Orchestration on top of the CEP engine for PF Data warehouse and RefData, that cut 30% overall processing time and resulted in better accuracy.
  • Implemented systems to extract real-time data from RefData like pricing & accounts and applied aggregation / disaggregation, for downstream consumers.

Tech Lead / Lead Developer / Consultant

Lehman Brothers/Barclays
New York, NY
07.2008 - 06.2010
  • Designed and implemented part of the business-critical data feeds like settlements, market status, repo, positions, and balances, for APB (Activities, Positions, & Balances) system, as part of application consolidations and thus reducing overall cost.
  • Played a key role in the implementation and migration of important Mainframe components to a distributed environment, using Java and Informatica, resulting in over two million dollars in annual savings.

Lead Developer / Consultant

Merrill Lynch
New York, NY
11.2006 - 07.2008
  • Worked with architects and designed the core part of the centralized reporting platform for the Global Prime Brokerage division.
  • Designed and led a four-person technical team to implement Reporting plant built on top of the Cognos platform.
  • Managed the offshore team and adopted processes to offer a stable and efficient application environment, and played a key role in the smooth operation of this application, which got positive feedback from our clients of this Reporting platform.

Lead Developer / Consultant

UBS AG
09.2005 - 10.2006
  • Designed and implemented financial control project and redesigned Workpackage application using Oracle workflow that resulted in 40% performance improvement.
  • Contributed to dev of the MouseTrap reconciliation project, that resulted in 25% better data reporting for trade and settlement feeds.

Lead Developer / Consultant

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York, NY
09.2004 - 08.2005
  • Led a three-person team to design and implement the migration of application s from older monolithic platforms of BankOne (after the merger), to a better modern stack.
  • Contributed to the success of application migration and effectively managed overall aspects including enforcing modular application design to use best practices to cut development time, and achieve stable, secure, and scalable applications

Senior Developer / Consultant

Goldman Sachs & Co.
New York, NY
10.2003 - 08.2004
  • Contributed to the design and implementation of the total revamping of the Client Account Opening systems

Tech Lead / Senior Analyst

AdventNet (now Zoho)
12.2002 - 08.2003
  • Responsible for core implementation of JMX 1.2 spec, for Graphical SNMP/JMS development environment

Senior Analyst

eSpace Technologies
01.1999 - 11.2002
  • Lead a nimble dev team to implement core trading application for one of India's early truly real-time online trading web portals called 'HomeTrade' with cutting-edge technologies like tandem servers
  • Lead a small team in OyeNok authentication and authorization protocol used in banks

Projects Executive

Crompton Greaves Ltd
07.1997 - 12.1998
  • Responsible for automation of certain supply-chain management processes and systems that build and install electrical grid substations

Certification

FINRA Series 24: General Securities Principal

Timeline

Head of CoE - AI

Nobl Q
08.2023 - Current

Co-founder

Fyniti Global Equities, LLC
10.2019 - 08.2023

Co-founder, General Securities Principal

S&L Capital Markets, LLC
10.2019 - 08.2023

VP of Technology

Netomi (formerly msg.ai)
07.2015 - 10.2019

Principal Architect, VP

BNY Mellon
04.2012 - 06.2015

Vice President

Citigroup
06.2010 - 02.2012

Tech Lead / Lead Developer / Consultant

Lehman Brothers/Barclays
07.2008 - 06.2010

Lead Developer / Consultant

Merrill Lynch
11.2006 - 07.2008

Lead Developer / Consultant

UBS AG
09.2005 - 10.2006

Lead Developer / Consultant

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
09.2004 - 08.2005

Senior Developer / Consultant

Goldman Sachs & Co.
10.2003 - 08.2004

Tech Lead / Senior Analyst

AdventNet (now Zoho)
12.2002 - 08.2003

Senior Analyst

eSpace Technologies
01.1999 - 11.2002

Projects Executive

Crompton Greaves Ltd
07.1997 - 12.1998

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Govt. College of Technology
08.1993 - 05.1997

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Govt. College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
08.1993 - 05.1997

Brokercheck

https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/5256081
Jay GopalanTechnology And Product Leader (AI/ML, FinTech)