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Ganesh Kawade

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

  • Results-oriented and highly experienced Software Engineering Manager with a strong background in highly complex domains like Finance and Ecommerce.
  • Proven track record of driving successful software development projects, delivering high-quality solutions, and optimizing business operations in complex and fast-paced environments.
  • Exceptional leadership skills in managing cross-functional teams, collaborating with stakeholders, and achieving organizational objectives.
  • Extensive technical expertise in software development methodologies, coding languages, and software architecture.
  • Adept at leveraging emerging technologies including AI and industry best practices to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and drive innovation.
  • Strong communicator with excellent problem-solving abilities, consistently delivering strategic solutions to meet and exceed customer expectations.
  • Committed to fostering a culture of teamwork, continuous learning, and professional development to drive individual and team success.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Kogan.com
01.2022 - Current
  • Managing and Leading a team of engineers who are responsible for Kogan’s product discovery and user experience.
  • Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
  • Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
  • Cultivated partnerships between engineering, product and UX personnel to create holistically designed final products.
  • Mentored software engineers, providing careful guidance of development strategies and education on innovative development techniques.
  • Led development on multiple simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.
  • Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
  • Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
  • Conducting performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.

Senior Developer (Lead Engineer)

AE Capital
03.2020 - 01.2022
  • Designed and developed a platform in C# dot net core which connected to different trading venues and send automated orders based on signals received from an in-house trading algorithms.
  • Team size of two delivered the complete solution consisting of several containerized services deployed in AWS ECS with kafka producers to record events, bitbucket pipelines for CI/CD and a monitoring dashboard in cloudwatch.
  • Lead the maintenance of the whole system including interviewing and training new engineers .
  • Conducted AWS cost reviews and implemented cost-saving measures.
  • Reviewed and incorporated latest technology innovations and development strategies to improve build speed, quality and end-user experience.
  • Optimized performance through testing and tuning of applications.

Senior Software Developer (Lead Developer)

IRESS
02.2017 - 03.2020
  • Working with Strategy TI Team to maintain & develop Trading algorithms like Best Market, Iceberg, Contingent orders etc
  • Mentored junior developers to promote good development quality and efficient delivery
  • Moved repo from GitHub to bitbucket, assisted in implementing CI/CD using Bitbucket pipeline, Artifactory, Buildkite etc
  • Interacted with clients directly to solve production issues and answer their queries and perform UAT
  • Was selected to join the newly implemented client solutions team to work directly with clients and work with the internal teams to deliver the requested solution.
  • Worked with FIX plus team, developing & maintaining client connectivity application responsible for all client sessions & incoming/outgoing FIX messages to the respective client
  • Undertook Agile training and was an active participant in all phases (inception, story estimation, sprint planning, retrospective etc)

Senior Manager

Edelweiss Capital Services
03.2016 - 11.2016
  • Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
  • Led a team of 5 developers to write a trading algorithm for the in house system
  • Designed software architecture for an in-house TCA system
  • Developed generic API’s (in C++) for asynchronous logging & performance measuring counters to be used across multiple processes
  • Worked on optimising existing Arbitrage & Directional Algorithms like TWAP/VWAP & POVs.

Team lead

VIBHS DMCC
03.2014 - 02.2016
  • Lead a team of 4 developers to design and develop a c++ trading application to trade in currency markets
  • Developed mitigation strategies and prepared standard operating procedures
  • Developed the low latency product (Cosmic Algo System) from ground zero
  • Achieved a tick-to-order latency of 30us
  • Developed a product that could arbitrage between 13 different venues including CME
  • Certified our newly built platform with all the Banks to do currency trading
  • Worked with the tech team to identify server configuration and collocation sites to run our low latency platform.

Lead Consultant

Genpact (Cli: Morgan Stanley)
06.2013 - 03.2014
  • Responsible for code maintenance of Classic Order Manager, a legacy OMS
  • Implemented features like re-routing orders to destinations received in FIX tags
  • Developed modules for FIX tags manipulations & Order slicing
  • Was offered to work directly for Morgan Stanley.

Senior Software Engineer

Financial Technologies Ltd
07.2009 - 06.2013
  • Developed Exchange gateway adapters for NSE Tick by Tick data, implemented bookkeeping for cash & derivatives products
  • Developed Exchange simulators to simulate live market behaviour offline
  • Developed Feed replayers to read from a pre-recorded market data file & provide multicast to simulate exchange behaviour offline.

Associate System Analyst

NSEiT
07.2007 - 07.2009
  • Responsible for code maintenance of Exchange Gateway Adapters for NSE, BSE & MCX (Indian Exchanges)
  • Migrated NSE gateways from X25 Handlers to TAP
  • Implemented Proof of Concept to incorporate a third-party in-memory database (GemStone) in NEATXS to reduce RMS latency.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Mumbai University
Mumbai, India
06.2007

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Prioritization
  • Project Leadership
  • Product Development
  • Mentoring and Training
  • Security Planning
  • Cloud Architecture Design
  • Agile Methodology

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Kogan.com
01.2022 - Current

Senior Developer (Lead Engineer)

AE Capital
03.2020 - 01.2022

Senior Software Developer (Lead Developer)

IRESS
02.2017 - 03.2020

Senior Manager

Edelweiss Capital Services
03.2016 - 11.2016

Team lead

VIBHS DMCC
03.2014 - 02.2016

Lead Consultant

Genpact (Cli: Morgan Stanley)
06.2013 - 03.2014

Senior Software Engineer

Financial Technologies Ltd
07.2009 - 06.2013

Associate System Analyst

NSEiT
07.2007 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Mumbai University

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