
Santosh Kalluri
Trading Operations Specialist | FIX & Algo Integration
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Languages
About me
Intro
Trading Operations Specialist with 10+ years in FIX/Algo trade execution and electronic market infrastructure. Currently leading LME's strategic trading platform refresh, implemented Broadridge Conductor for 150+ members. Expert in FIX Protocol, Charles River, and cross-asset trading systems with proven project delivery.
Work experience
Trading Operations Specialist
London Metal Exchange
May 2023 - Present
3 years 6 months
London, UK
• Responsible for delivering a major strategic initiative to refresh the electronic market infrastructure at LME. This includes delivery of in-house developed Electronic Trading Platform & real-time Market Monitoring and Control system and vendor-based Trading GUI(TT) & Pricing system. • Managing system implementations and enhancement initiatives, ensuring successful project delivery on various LME products like Select10/Trader/LME Clear/(PTRM)Risk Management. • Successfully implemented Broadridge Conductor tool to perform conformance on LME products for 150+ Members now live on Production. • Successfully completed service improvement projects...LME EMMR, Trade Halts, MMC Backstop solution, Corvil etc • Performed testing on price bands, market halts and various Exchange prompts on variety of commodities (AH, PB, NA etc) and contracts (Outright, Carry and TomNext). • Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to RMs, TAMs, Stakeholders and vendors by presenting/answering product related questions on calls with prospective and existing members. • Ability to fast pased environments, multi-task and prioritize business critical issues and adhere to SLAs. • Expertise in FIX Protocol/ Binary and Algo flow integration, setup and investigate logs using Splunk/VeriFIX and inhouse tools. • Proficient in collecting requirements, functional spec, work as a bridge between Business and Dev teams and deliver the agreed product/solution. • Experienced in supporting Production environments within an ITIL framework and development environments using Agile methodologies. • Experienced in end to end QA process (Manual and Auto testing), ensure cases are available on Zephyr portal, linking tests to requirements.
Charles River and FIX Business Analyst
Janus Henderson Investors
Nov 2022 - May 2023
7 months
- Charles River Application support - FIX client onboarding - Flextrade, Bloomberg, Liquidnet, FXALL support and testing. - Change and Incident Management - Service Management Application, such as Service Now, Remedy (BMC Helix ITSM) or HP Service Manager. - Autosys jobs config and management Effective Monitoring • Effective monitoring of start of day tasks, such as data refreshes or updates. • Ensure applications are available to business users at the right time with the right data. Incident Management • Managing issues related to the daily system updates and data quality causing potential SLA • Ensure support calls raised by users are allocated and resolved, effectively. • Regular communication to end user on progress • Collaborative approach with other IT Team to resolve issues quickly Change Management • Pro-active, cogent approach to change management and the enhancement lifecycle Maintaining a High-Quality Service • Manage the resolution of issues resulting from application checks, including communication to the business. • Working with other local support teams to ensure effective coverage of services offered by Technology. • Management of local system take-on into an agree service framework • Conduct user training on internal applications as required on key investment systems • Build and maintain support documentation for applications and processes Testing • Take an active role in the provision and testing of Disaster Recovery to our business • Provide a QA resource to various project and infrastructure team
Charles River Business Analyst
Pictet Asset Management
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 1 month
London, UK
• Working with Clients, internal Charles River colleagues, ECNs/network vendor(s) to perform the following service-related functions: • Requirements solicitation, design and provisioning/analysis of FIX and Algorithmic trade flow(CameronFIX) • Client Onboarding, testing and certification (using standard and customised scenarios) • Provide CRIMS application support on Equities, Derivatives and Fixed Income workflows. • Go-live implementation (prior testing on UAT and Integration environments) • Problem troubleshooting, support and resolution • Customize blotters for traders/portfolio managers incorporating real-time pricing and TCA features in CRD. • Broker setups, alert configuration for fee codes, exchange and commissions. • Implement complex post-trade routing rules for equities and fixed income based on custom broker reasons/commissions. • Working with Fixed Income vendors such as Tradeweb, Bond Vision and Market Axcess • Liaise with the business for enhancing existing workflow to integrate with CRIMS • Work flow rules and New Manager Workbench experience and security setups • Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
Site Reliability Engineer
Credit Suisse
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 years
Zürich, Switzerland
• Site Reliability Engineer within ITS Cross-Asset Execution • Design and implementation of FIX and electronic gateway components of the Trading Order and Execution systems • On-boarding of new clients and maintenance of existing clients on our electronic trading platform • Analyse and Migrate/Streamline existing workflows • Bloomberg Algo and FIX strategies and order routing management. . OTEX, TOM and THFIX configuration management, troubleshooting using Squirrel and RapidSQL DB tools. . Liaise with Change and Release management teams to schedule weekly changes. . Analyse and design workflows for existing and new client routing (using Visio) . Manage team wiki/share point/knowledge base.
Director
Sri Viraj Solutions Ltd.
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
2 years 7 months
Belfast, UK
Skills: Operations
Senior Programmer Client Connectivity/Venue Engineering
Citi
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
2 years 7 months
Belfast, UK
• Global Market Access coverage through teams in Singapore, India, UK and USA. • New broker and exchange connectivity, integration, engineering, on boarding and certification. • Connectivity support and maintenance of FIX, Algorithmic and native APIs’ and applications. • Customize/Develop FIX and Algo tags based solutions to support venue, 3rd party specifications. • Quality Assurance, Business analysis and implementation of venue specific requirements for Citi and its Exchanges globally. • Support for all FIX versions (4.2/4.4/5.0) issues both Exchange Client Connectivity and Development related. • Business support and maintenance of client accounts i.e. risk, considerations, mappings and trade flow routing. • Creating, updating and management of documentation (i.e. FIX/Algo specifications, ROI’s, BRD’s) and dashboards. • Management of ECN's, third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software Vendors. (eg, Fidessa, NYFIX, Bloomberg, Trading screen, ITG etc.) • Functional testing of the trading system application both manually and automated (ensuring data integrity for upstream and downstream systems) using tools such as Aegis Client Simulator and Verifix. • Investigating static and dynamic data issues, resolving mapping conflicts and ensuring data integrity. • Ensuring reference data and Instrument universe is up to date and complete, resolving any data issues from a 1st to 3rd line support level, troubleshoot on call with 3rd Party vendors and partners. • Assisting development teams in the unit testing, tracking and resolution of issues identified. • Migrating existing connectivity from legacy platform to new GMA platform (GMAX, One Market Access, One Market Execution etc) • Working with Dev Op technologies such as Docker, BitBucket, TeamCity, UDeploy and Stash. • Working with and utilization of Collab tools i.e. JIRA and Confluence. • Working in Linux/Unix and windows environments.
FIX Consultant/Programmer
Charles River Development
Dec 2014 - Jul 2017
2 years 8 months
London, UK
• Working with Clients, internal Charles River colleagues, ECNs/network vendor(s) to perform the following service-related functions: • Requirements solicitation, design and provisioning/analysis of FIX and Algorithmic trade flow(CameronFIX) • Client Onboarding, testing and certification (using standard and customised scenarios) • Provide CRIMS application support on Equities, Derivatives and Fixed Income workflows. • Go-live implementation (prior testing on UAT and Integration environments) • On-going changes and enhancements • Problem troubleshooting, support and resolution • Pre-sales support (from Project initiation calls to Go-Live) • Customised blotters for traders/portfolio managers incorporating real-time pricing and TCA features in CRD. • Broker setups, alert configuration for fee codes, exchange and commissions. • Implemented complex post-trade routing rules for equities and fixed income based on custom broker reasons/commissions. • Working with the business and relationship managers to configure client requirements according to their workflow • Analysis of current workflow for upgrading to v17R1 • Working with Fixed Income vendors such as Tradeweb, Bond Vision and Market Axcess • Liaise with the business for enhancing existing workflow to integrate with CRIMS • Work flow rules and New Manager Workbench experience and security setups • Upgrade analysis on existing CRIMS version for implementation. • Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients. • Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement of all operational support procedures essential to the cost-effective delivery of network services. • Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of network services.
Lead API Development Analyst
CME Group
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 2 months
London, United Kingdom & Chicago, U.S.A
- Participate in customer site visits as part of a CME contingent or smaller focused group. Prepare talking points on technical/functional topics. - Provide subject matter expertise and training for the Globex and Partner Exchange integration. Act as an escalation point point within the team for junior team members for complex issues. Ensure support documentation is available and effectively managed. - Represent CSET on project teams providing integration support, certification guidance, problem management, ensure the readiness of the CSET team to support products or functionality. - Provide leadership and guidance necessary to ensure environment readiness. This includes but is not limited to establishing standards for checkouts, coordinating weekend checkouts and measure success, leading the problem management process identifying systemic issues and Turnover for more immediate issues. - Provide development and product support for customer testing or certifying for Globex or OTC services. - Provide expertise for the core OTC technologies and underlying Clearing support systems, including Clear Port Clearing, CME Direct, Clear Trades, eSecurity, Risk Allocation Manager - Provide subject matter expertise for the core Globex technologies and underlying clearing and support systems, including iLink, FIXFAST/MDP3, Drop Copy etc - Provide feedback to development staff and CSET team regarding AutoCertPlus - test existing and new scripts prior to releases.
FIX Network Specialist
Charles River Development
May 2012 - Oct 2013
1 year 6 months
Liverpool Street, London
- Working with Clients, internal Charles River colleagues, and network vendor(s) to perform the following service-related functions: - Requirements solicitation, Design, and provisioning of FIX Order Flow - Testing and certification - Go-live implementation - On-going changes and enhancements - Problem troubleshooting, support, and resolution - Pre-sales support - Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Network Clients - Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement of all operational support procedures essential to the cost-effective delivery of network services. - Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of network services.
Thomson Reuters
May 2007 - Jul 2011
4 years 3 months
Singapore
Hosted Services Specialist
May 2010 - Jul 2011
1 year 3 months
Singapore
- Reuters NGTx (Next Generation Transactions) Product support - End-to-End Client Onboarding, Certification and Support using hosted APIs and FIX Protocol. - RET-AD (Reuters Electronic Trading - Automated Dealing), RTFX, Post Trade, TOPS product support and implementation - Anticipate capacity issues for SPARC/x86 servers, conduct regular system reviews, coordinate with internal and external users. - Manage SSL certificates for all the clients (placing orders with VeriSign, renewing with relevant Certification Authorities) - Perform regular hotfix, service pack upgrades on UAT, Integration and Assembly environments before arranging a production delivery with clients. - Actively participate, co-ordinate and liaise with the relevant internal teams, 3rd party vendors in the event of a Business outage. - Pre-Sales Technical/Business Consultancy - Unix Shell scripts and Perl - Sun (Solaris), Microsoft (MCSE), Cisco (CCNA) and ITIL V3 Foundation Certified.
Client Services Specialist
May 2007 - May 2010
3 years 1 month
London, UK
- RTFX, TOPS - Product support and client onboarding - Handle day to day Deal/Trade L2 support - Solaris, SQL, Shell scripting - Perform new service pack upgrades and tests on Demo, UAT, Assembly and Integration systems before handing over to Operations/Dev implementation team for Production install. - Provide Oncall/Weekend migration support.
GE Capital
Apr 2004 - Mar 2007
3 years
Manchester, UK
Team Leader
Feb 2005 - Mar 2007
2 years 2 months
Manchester, UK
- Client Business support - Offshore team leader - Technical services offshore transition - Lead a team of system engineers - Performance management (staff metrics, appraisals, shift scheduling, incentive planning, quality control etc)
Service Analyst
Apr 2004 - Jan 2005
10 months
London, UK
- Onsite Infra support Engineer - Day to day BAU support, upgrades (s/w, h/w & network) - Business Application and Microsoft Server support - IT Procurement - IT Helpdesk liaison, Stakeholder relationship management
Technical Analyst
GE - iProcess
Jan 2001 - Mar 2004
3 years 3 months
Hyderabad Area, India
- IT Helpdesk support (phone, email and chat) - Onsite & Offshore team liaison - Call and Ticket quality auditing - Shift scheduling, Incentive planning
Education
Osmania University
Bachelor of Computer Applications
1998 - 2001
3 years 1 month
National Institute of Information Technology
GNIIT
1998 - 2000
2 years 1 month
Ideal Junior College
Maths
1996 - 1998
2 years 1 month