Programming Languages: Python, Java, Scala, Javascript, PERL 5x (OO Perl - Moose), Unix shell scripting
Parth Gandhi
Sr. Technology Lead, Application Developer
Princeton,NJ
Summary
Senior technology lead and application developer with more than 12 years of experience in a diverse, fast-paced financial services environment. Through data engineering and in-depth investment products knowledge, built long-term relationships with clients and deliver solutions (within established timelines) that help make better trading decisions and manage risk. Expert in pricing of interest rate and FX instruments, yield curve marking, ETL processing, intraday market & trade data APIs with hands-on experience in application analysis, architecture, design, implementation and operations. Excellent team builder and leader of initiatives.
Overview
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1
Certification
4
4
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President, Application Developer III
Bank Of America, N.A.
New York, NY
01.2014 - Current
- Leading team of 8 core developers, and spearheading cross-functional initiative of real-time instrument pricing and curve marking for businesses across FX, Rates, Emerging Markets (FICC) and Equities.
- Re-engineered legacy curve marking application; and created more scalable, extendible, micro-service driven application from ground-up using ReactJS on Front End and Python (Tornado web sockets & REST) service APIs on back-end. Delivered application to Repo, FX Forwards and Swaps trading desks while constantly meeting tight deadlines. Collaborated with finance, market risk and traders to explain PnL and risk impact of migrating trading books to curves generated by application.
- Retired LIBOR and EONIA rate curves with SOFR and ESTR respectively, for FX and Repo desks.
- Developed and implemented complex ETL framework (using python) to collect and store huge amounts of tick market data of various financial instruments for regulatory MAD/MAR initiative, which helps detect market manipulation.
- Developed (using core Java) powerful, scalable and efficient time series API to very heavily used time series database, with 1000s of client requests every second.
- Designed and created data catalog with highly optimized search engine using AngularJS and Elastic Search, that helped clients search for market data in data lake.
- Facilitated design, planning and retrospective exercises in agile environment, for future software rollouts.
- Hired and managed team members to maximize productivity while training them on best practices and empowered them to take ownership of projects assigned to them.
Assistant Vice President, Technology Lead
Bank Of America, NA
Chicago, IL
09.2011 - 12.2013
- Led retirement of FX rates platform (golden source of FX spot and forward rates for all currencies) and migrated more than 50 client applications (including the banks sub-ledger systems) over to a newer, proprietary market data platform. Helped save more than $500K annually by retiring the old platform.
- Created reporting application for electronic FX Sales Desk to graphically view their top clients by PnL, Volume, Channels and Currencies. Technologies used were Python & Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- Developed proof of concept application using Vagrant to simulate fully virtual, globally replicated, messaging application.
Analyst, Team Lead
Bank Of America Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
12.2009 - 08.2011
- Formed and led market data development team for supporting and enhancing 3 applications that manage risk and provide critical high frequency data to Traders and Quant Analysts.
- Created robust & extensible support framework using vendor tool called ITRS that helped monitor more than 50 application and infrastructure parameters in real-time.
- Fostered culture of test driven development (TDD) and enforced coding standards via code reviews.
Consultant Programmer Analyst
Bank Of America, NA
Chicago, IL
08.2008 - 10.2009
- Implemented ETL processes and loading financial data (1.4 million records per day) to Sybase.
- Created front-end application via modern MVC Perl Framework “Catalyst” for monitoring real time Market Data and reporting framework “Impact” to provide daily PnL to Fixed Income clients.
Education
Master of Science - Financial Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY 09.2006 - 08.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
St Francis Institute of Technology
Mumbai, India 05.2004 - 06.2006
Software
Databases: Apache HBase, Impala, MIM, Sybase, KDB, SQLite, MySQL, Elastic Search, MongoDB, Solr
Web Design: React JS, Angular JS, REST, HTML, CSS
Tools: Bloomberg, Reuters, Git, Jenkins, Protocol Buffers, Pandas, Matplotlib, AMPS, VMWare Player, Maven/Gradle, Vim, Pew, Tox
Platforms: Unix (RHEL, Solaris), Cloudera
Skills
Training and mentoring
Certification
CFA Level 3 Candidate
Interests
Derivatives Trading, Portfolio Management, Motorcycles, Basketball, Cricket, Public Speaking (Toastmasters) and Social work
Accomplishments
- Recipient of "Platinum Award" in years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020, in recognition of outstanding performance and leadership.
- Finished in top 10 (out of more than 200 teams participating globally) at the Bank of America 2017 Hackathon, for presenting an intercompany lending application using R3 corda (open source blockchain platform).
Timeline
CFA Level 3 Candidate
05-2021
Vice President, Application Developer III
Bank Of America, N.A.
01.2014 - Current
Assistant Vice President, Technology Lead
Bank Of America, NA
09.2011 - 12.2013
Analyst, Team Lead
Bank Of America Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
12.2009 - 08.2011
Consultant Programmer Analyst
Bank Of America, NA
08.2008 - 10.2009
Master of Science - Financial Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
09.2006 - 08.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
St Francis Institute of Technology
05.2004 - 06.2006
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