Managed a cross-functional Platform Engineering team, developing roadmaps and driving resource allocation for Windows-based systems spanning trading platforms, virtualization services and developer tooling.

• Architected an automated server maintenance framework, leading architecture design and feature prioritization to reduce service downtimes by 40% and save 50+ engineer-hours per month.

• Spearheaded global restoration during the July 2024 CrowdStrike incident, achieving full recovery within 8 hours (60% faster than industry average) and enabling trading activity ahead of US market open.

• Drove firm-wide AI adoption initiatives by building an LLM-based framework for automated handovers across sites and defining custom Cursor agent rules, improving operations turnaround time and code review velocity.

• Conducted over 80 hiring interviews and led structured mentorship/onboarding programs, contributing to strategic hiring and career development initiatives.

As a Senior Engineer in the Windows Platform Engineering team, I worked on independently designing configuration management, monitoring and security systems for the firm's technological infrastructure.

• Developed hardware inventory services and automation workflows for managing server license renewals, reducing administrative effort by 20% and standardising critical audit processes.

• Re-designed a proprietary enterprise device configuration framework, reducing error rates by 90% and accelerating server deployment cycles by 50%.

• Strengthened firm’s security posture by setting up certificate-based network authentication, configuring egress filtering and endpoint protection on core infrastructure servers and building out secure DMZ and Cloud environments.

Promoted at an accelerated schedule to Tech Lead and became the youngest people-manager at the firm (among 2,000+ employees), recognised for technical leadership and formalising onboarding processes.

I contributed to development-focused projects oriented towards improving and maintaining on-premises Windows and Linux infrastructure systems, which form the backbone of the firm's high-performance trading systems and enterprise services.

• Engineered server monitoring stack for a new on-shore trading site in the absence of the firm-wide expert, enabling time-sensitive market entry and full visibility into core trading infrastructure.

My internship involved reducing the costs incurred in maintaining the databases used to

store the metadata for HDInsight clusters. I completed two projects during my internship which brought down the costs of maintaining the metastores for HDInsight clusters by 25%.