Saurabh Gupta

Experience

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  HCLTech

  Jul 2004 - Aug 2006

  Lead Engineer
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  Ikonix Technologies

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2007

  Senior Software Engineer
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  ISmart Panache

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2009

  Senior Software Engineer
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  NatWest Markets Plc

  Aug 2009 - May 2018

  • Lead a team of 10 Software Engineers to deliver Voice (over the counter) Interest Rates Trading Platform for Global Banking and Markets business at RBS.• Added support for pricing and booking instruments like Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, FRAs, Swaption, Bermudan Options etc.• Built capability to for bulk operations on trade like Trade Clone, Trade Novation, Trade Allocation, Back- to-back Trade. • Added Trade Amendment Effect capability to Rates Trading Platform.• Trade reconciliation blotter for Middle Office users. Show less

  • Vice President

    Feb 2015 - May 2018

  • AVP Technology

    Aug 2009 - Feb 2015
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  NatWest Group

  May 2018 - now

  • Lead the initiative for defining the vision and roadmap for new-age Micro-frontend based Trading Platform for NatWest Markets for their Sales, Trading and Back Office Staff.• Workflows Enabled * Command Center (FDC3 enabled tool) for getting customer MI or invoking price negotiation workflow on customers behalf. * Simplify (transition from monolithic C# App to Micro-frontend based) Sales and Trader Workflows for price negotiation of Interest Rates Products. * Realtime Risk Blotters• Set-up UI CoP in NatWest Markets to drive consistency between teams building various Frontend Applications and establishing common patterns for DevOps, SDKs and adoption of toolchain.• Platform Core Capabilities * Lead the initiative to build Bot Framework using Symphony for both external and internal chat driven workflows. * NWM's Scout Bot for Price negotiation with customers sales & traders. * Adopted FDC3 for interoperability in between UI Applications / Micro frontends to create workflows. Made contribution to FDC3 Working Group under FINOS and also lead the effort for NatWest Group to become FINOS Member. * Promoted the need of having a single Notifications & Alerting Platform to rationalize the technology estate. * Conceptualized the idea of creating low-code blotters using Blotter Framework. * Lead the initiative to create Single App Store for UI Applications in the bank. Show less

  • Director (Platform Lead - Market Data)

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Sr. Vice President (Engineering Lead for Interest Rates Trading Platform)

    May 2018 - Sept 2023