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Shatrughan Kumar

Summary

21 years IT experience hinged on 15 years in the investment banking domain across multiple organizations. It includes 11 years of hands-on experience in development in KDB+ & Q. I have extensive hand-on experience in KDB+/Q with expertise in financial data reporting and management. Around 1.5 years of experience in developing POCs on KDB.AI & KDB Insights Enterprise for the Technology Partners of KX Systems as part of the GTM strategy.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Partner Solutions Architect

KX Systems
10.2023 - Current
  • To understand the requirement of the client or technology partner firms to devise POCs for 'Go To Market' strategy
  • Liaison with Solutions Architect of Technology Partner firms like NVIDIA, DELL, Oracle as well as financial firms like Citi to develop POCs using KDB.AI, KDB Insights Enterprise, KX Dashboards
  • Develop POCs from scratch understanding the requirements using KX range of products

AVP

FX RADARS (Standard Chartered Global Business Services, Bangalore)
Bangalore
05.2019 - 07.2022
  • Managing India and UK Radars team of 4 KDB+ resources
  • Involved in development of different types of reports using Q
  • Creating plugins for Geneos to monitor RADARS applications and data quality checks
  • Prepare plan to carry out any maintenance in HDB and involve in implementation
  • Actively involve with all the stakeholders like dev team, infra team, traders, quants etc for any improvement or enhancement in monitoring
  • Bi-Weekly status calls to track the progress of tasks and discuss any issues

Sr Mgr

Unity EMEA (Bank of America)
06.2016 - 05.2019
  • Setting up of various EOD and intraday reports specific to EMEA market
  • Development of RTS 27 & 28 reports for MiFID II requirements
  • Onboarding of new feeds in KDB
  • Providing level 2 support for KDB
  • Providing inputs on resolution of day-to-day issues and automation of processes
  • Writing test cases for several Gateway functions to be run through qunit

Senior Analyst

MIS For FX Data Strategy (J.P. Morgan India Services Pvt Ltd)
05.2014 - 06.2016
  • Migration of the old database from MySQL to KDB
  • Onboarding new feeds in KDB
  • Involved in designing schema for KDB tables
  • Involved in writing gateway functions for trade & tick databases
  • Level 2 & 3 support for KDB infrastructure

Senior Analyst

Electronic Trading Data (Bank Of America Merrill Lynch)
05.2007 - 05.2014
  • Worked across several projects like
  • Historical Analytics Services (KDB with REST services)
  • Global Implied Volatility Service (KDB & R)
  • Reuters Tick History (TRTH API to get data and store in KDB)
  • Reuters Datascope Pricing Data Service
  • Mostly involved EOD data processing and persisting in KDB
  • Scripting in Q, shell scripts & Java
  • Level 2 & 3 support

Software Engineer

Tandon Information Solutions Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, India
08.2006 - 04.2007
  • Enhancement of System Monitor Plugin on Xandros
  • Project Brief: The objective of the project was to modify certain features of the utility called 'System Monitor Plugin' of Xandros Management Console(XMC)
  • XMC is used to display the different plugins for different services
  • The plugins are used to display the status and interface for changing the configurations of the server

Software Engineer

Expert Software Consultants Ltd
08.2003 - 07.2006
  • Entrez: Attendance and Visitor Recording System
  • Project Brief: Entrez is an internet based Attendance monitoring and Visitor recording system
  • It enhances the face value of a corporate campus
  • It is based on Client – Server architecture
  • Client is developed using C++ and Qt
  • Vehicle Authorization System
  • Project Brief: The Purpose of VAS is to allow unhindered passage for authorized vehicle
  • The system consists of Vehicle Identification Unit, smart card reader, RF Transceiver, micro-controller based logical unit, LCD

Education

Master in Computer Applications -

Madan Mohan Malviya University Of Technology
Gorakhpur, India
06-2003

Bachelor Of Science - Maths Hons

Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, India
06-1999

Skills

  • KDB/Q
  • PyKx
  • Python
  • KDBAI
  • KDB Insights Enterprise
  • Shell Scripts
  • Kubernetes
  • Generative AI - Basic

References

Available On Request

Personal Information

  • Hobbies: Active in taking up social and environmental causes - Initiated waste segregation in my locality and helped local Municipality in enforcing it., Actively involved in groups working for solar electrification in Mumbai and around., Cooking, Music, Solving Sudoku, Solving Crosswords and Puzzles.
  • Date of Birth: 08/29/78
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Senior Partner Solutions Architect

KX Systems
10.2023 - Current

AVP

FX RADARS (Standard Chartered Global Business Services, Bangalore)
05.2019 - 07.2022

Sr Mgr

Unity EMEA (Bank of America)
06.2016 - 05.2019

Senior Analyst

MIS For FX Data Strategy (J.P. Morgan India Services Pvt Ltd)
05.2014 - 06.2016

Senior Analyst

Electronic Trading Data (Bank Of America Merrill Lynch)
05.2007 - 05.2014

Software Engineer

Tandon Information Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2006 - 04.2007

Software Engineer

Expert Software Consultants Ltd
08.2003 - 07.2006

Master in Computer Applications -

Madan Mohan Malviya University Of Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Maths Hons

Banaras Hindu University
Shatrughan Kumar