Nishad Manerikar

Across all these products, my work involved all parts of the development life-cycle:

• Requirement gathering from the business teams (both functional and non-functional)
• Architecture and design
• Coding and testing
• Packaging and deployment
• Maintenance and support
• Project management (Agile, Kanban)

I worked on complex distributed systems with lots of moving parts, several different data flows and user interfaces. I worked on both the backend (C++11/14 on Linux) and frontend (JavaScript and TypeScript). Most of the programs are multi-threaded and the systems are multi-process.

Working in trading systems has made me familiar with trading workflows, especially in the equities space. I have worked on blotters (orders, routes, executions, positions), buy/sell tickets, market data distribution, market depths, algorithmic trading, exchange/broker connectivity, FIX protocol, pre and post trading analytics, compliance and risk management.

• I led a concerted stress testing effort. I built tools for simulating different load conditions to test capacity and scalability of our systems, and worked on ways to collect performance metrics. I adopted several SRE strategies for this effort.
• I was involved in several optimisation efforts where we worked on reducing latency in data distribution, especially for blotter and market-depth end-user applications.

In my last two years at Bloomberg LP, I worked closely with a high-profile client to help migrate them to the newer version of our EMSX platform. This involved site visits, and close coordination with the client’s traders and technical team, as well as our Account Management teams. I gathered valuable feedback from the client first hand, helped them with their new workflows, performance testing and improvements and addressed their issues and concerns. The project was successfully completed to the client’s satisfaction, and I was commended by senior management for my role in it.