RANJIT SOMANATHAN
Application Support And Site Reliability Engineering
Summary
- 24 years of Technology Experience, includes 20 years with Credit Suisse/UBS (Singapore and India) and 4 years with National Stock Exchange, India.
- Head Site Reliability Engineering for UBS Equities division.
- Head of Front-office trading application support covering High Touch, Program Trading, Exchange Connectivity, Client Connectivity and SRE for Credit Suisse Equities APAC.
- Strong SME in Exchange Connectivity , DMA and Low-latency DMA support in APAC across Equities and Listed Derivatives.
- Excellent track record in Stakeholder Management covering traders, business analysts, and senior management.
- Strong Incident Management skills and driving efficiencies through SRE initiatives and tooling.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1999
1999
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director
UBS
08.2024 - Current
- Head of Site Reliability Engineering and Global KDB Support for UBS Agency Stream.
- Developed centralized monitoring for Agency Trading applications through ITRS Geneos.
- Automation of tasks through toil reduction.
- Improved the stability and monitoring the KDB stack through automated checkouts and integration with Geneos.
Vice President
Credit Suisse
12.2017 - 08.2024
- Head of Asia Equities Front-Office Application Support team.
- Transformed the Application Support team into SRE focused team.
- Implementation of Geneos for entire stack of applications across APAC to achieve single pane of monitoring.
- Ensured stability of the systems through automated SOD checks for the Applications and alerts through micro-bots.
- Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Handled regulatory internal audits for systems.
- Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations.
- Incident management, problem management and follow-ups ensuring issues are transparently reported and tracked to closure.
Vice-President
Credit Suisse
10.2010 - 11.2017
- Deployed Low-latency DMA flow for the desk in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia.
- Key contributor in deploying strategies from EMEA and US into APAC. This contributed to 3% of the revenues of the desk.
- Managed project to transition the Prop Trading flow into Asset Management and trade as Third Party via Prime Brokers in APAC.
- Handled the Hong Kong SFC Audit for the Systematic Market Making Group (SMG).
- Maintenance and support of FO trading application and Exchange connectivity systems for the SMG group.
- Managed cross-team projects to setup trading flow for the desk across exchanges in APAC.
Assistant Vice-President
Credit Suisse
07.2004 - 10.2010
- Senior developer and lead for Singapore, Mumbai and Pune teams in the area of exchange-links application development, Market-data development, Tick-data collection, automation-tools development and application support.
- Interfacing with the traders to gather requirements, design, testing of the applications with dependent downstream systems.
- Setup team a team of L1 and L2 support team to support the global trading desk
- Setup team of 8 developers to develop applications in the area of Market data, exchange-links, Tick-data collection, support tools and automation.
Systems Analyst
NSE.IT Limited
12.2000 - 06.2004
- Support and maintenance of NSE's. Clearing and Settlement system for F&) Markets.
- Built tools for automated checkouts and maintenance.
- Built data marts for the F&O markets using ETL tools as part of NSE's Enterprise Data Warehousing project.
- Configuration management activities. Configuration in-charge of the project.
Programmer
JDS IT Solutions Ltd.
07.2000 - 11.2000
- Placement Management Solutions.
- Centralized CV management system for placement agencies.
- Analysis of requirements.
- Front-end development.
- Database design.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunications
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University
India07-1999
Skills
C
Resident Status
- Indian Citizen
- Singapore Permanent Resident
Timeline
Director
UBS
08.2024 - Current
Vice President
Credit Suisse
12.2017 - 08.2024
Vice-President
Credit Suisse
10.2010 - 11.2017
Assistant Vice-President
Credit Suisse
07.2004 - 10.2010
Systems Analyst
NSE.IT Limited
12.2000 - 06.2004
Programmer
JDS IT Solutions Ltd.
07.2000 - 11.2000
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunications
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University
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