Venu Kadali
Portfolio

Hands on Technologist. Generally curious on things.
Loves to build fast, responsive, concurrent, low latent and reactive financial systems.
Interested in Low latent, Big data, fast analytic and business transformations.

Co-Head for Bond Trading modernization@
MarketAxess

Led Low Latency Bond Trading modernization in the cloud!

Key deliverables:

  • Built the next gen low latency bond trading platform in the cloud. Intent is to decommission the monolithic platform.
  • Platform modernization included Trading desk, Exchange's Matching engine, RFQ State Machine and Kubernetes based infrastructure. Platform integrations with FIX, OMS, UI, Allocations etc.
  • This is a multi-year roadmaps for modernization, setting realistic expectations for the milestones.
  • Incredible throughput speeds of 200K TPS with a end to end p95 latencies of 20ms.
  • Built team from ground up with top talent to transform the vision to reality.
  • Developed comprehensive architecture strategy to completely overhaul which is reactive, modular, event driven and cloud native to handle the scale.
  • Provided recurring updates to the key stakeholders including CTO, CIO and Head of Trading.
  • Earned strong reputation across enterprise, engineering teams, senior leadership and vendors.
  • Tech stack includes Flink, Kafka, Core Java, Akka, Rest/gRPC, Protobuf/Avro, Python, AWS EKS, Mongodb, Datadog, Chaos engineering, Terraform, CI/CD, Automated regression test suites and SRE automation.
  • Enterprise Patterns includes event driven, dash mesh, domain driven, state management, exact once semantics, CQRS, constant time lookups, functional decomposition, RPO/RTO in secs and Enterprise integration patterns.

Overhaul of Messaging Infrastructure@
MUFG/Union Bank

Messaging and Infrastructure strategy for Core Banking transformation!

Key deliverables:

  • Led the prestigious undertaking to establish Kafka - Data in motion as an Enterprise Capability.
  • Shepherd Kafka initiative to "success" after several failures by the previous lead engagements.
  • Complexities involved in bringing in cloud innovation, company bureaucracy, stalled processes across departments, toll gate processes etc.
  • Worked with several key stakeholders such as CIO, CTO, Enterprise architects, Confluent Vendors, Info Sec, Risk, Compliance and other deparments.
  • Enterprise standards included Messaging Infrastructure automation, resiliency, cross region replication, establishing Data Mesh patterns across enterprise, tenant governance rules.
  • Built a solid reputation from get-go.

Data Engineering lead @
Point72 asset management

Lead big data strategy with realtime and batch reporting analytics!

Key deliverables:

  • Lead data lake strategy.
  • Lead teams of 6-10 across onsite and offshore.
  • Working with key stake holders including CTO, CIO, Department leads in gathering requirements.
  • Evaluated multiple technologies and came up with solutions for firm's needs.
  • Expert on distributed computing stack both at Kubernetes and Big data stack.
  • Hands on development experience on languages such as Java and 20+ Scala Microservices.
  • Solid Hands on experience in Kafka, Sql Server, Elastic, Neo4J, Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Built OLTP and OLAP solutions leveraging Hadoop and GPU db's.
  • Batch reporting was brought down to mins instead of hours.
  • OLAP reporting was brought down to sub-secs instead of secs.

Compliance Engineering Lead @
Point72 asset management

Lead engineer for revamping firm's prestigious surveillance activities initiative !

Key deliverables:

  • Engineer in implementing Digital reasoning for firm's Surveillance activities that monitors emails, chats, phone calls etc. Click here for Forbes article
  • Built on big data with NLP analytics.
  • Led the effort of revamping the firm's compliance processes.
  • Alternative data scrubbing for potential PII information in the data feeds.

DataOps - Application Profiling Monitoring(APM) Solution Engineer @
Point72 asset management

Built APM solution that monitors firm's modern stack !

Key deliverables:

  • Capture and track health state of the stack, error logs and give instant alerts.
  • Built 20+ microservices/agents that monitors wide range of software stack.
  • Realtime monitoring stack which derive key KPIs range from
    Microservices, Standalone applications in Java/Scala/NodeJS.
    Kubernetes, Redhat.
    Software stack: Elastic, Kafka, SQL server, MySql, Hadoop stack, Nifi.
    Monitor business data.
    Drill down from physical machines to docker containers to individual microservices for identifying pain points.
    Identify lineage of the data flows.
  • APM products does not yet include modern monitoring including Dynatrace, NewRelic, AppDynamics, SysD etc.

Director of Technology
@Brownstone

Key deliverables:

  • Built Muni trading desk, sales desk and other decision support systems from ground up in a greenfield environment.
  • Set up data repository for all reference data, market data, order data and vendor data.
  • All the technology stack was learnt on the go based on end users requirements.
  • Built quality software in a high paced environment.
  • Day to day production support to ensure stability.
  • Technologies: Java, Swing, Java FX, SQL Server, MQ.

Muni Trading desk - Development lead
@Morgan Stanley

Key deliverables:

  • Development of Muni trading systems for retail corporate and municipal bonds.
  • Built a stealth project that better bids the muni markets.
  • Built data ware house for hosting data and analytics on it.

Call center application
@Starwood hotels

Key deliverables:

  • Engineer for building call center application for Starwood - North Americas.
  • Goal was to offload mainframe processing to Service oriented architecture.
  • This was a highly mission critical application for Starwood hotels.

labelling system
@Ford

Key deliverables:

  • Built system that generates labels (VIN labels, door handles etc ) on every ford car delivered.
  • Built data repository from various engineering disciplines.