Hey there! This is
Pankaj Arora
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Pankaj Arora
Engineer who cares deeply about automation and user experience.
I'm a developer specializing in building elegant and performing financial applications.
I've had the privilege of working across many different financial products as part ofION Group. My main focus these days is building a SaaS platform providing leading covenant research for the credit markets across the globe.
Skills
Timeline
Development Manager Responsibilities
Jan 2024 - Present
- Leading a high-performing global development team of 20+ engineers, driving collaboration across multiple time zones
- Spearheading cross-functional initiatives to enhance development workflows, optimize delivery timelines, and maintain high-quality standards and Mentoring and empowering team members, fostering a culture of ownership, and continuous learning
- Recruitment & Campus Placement - Developed and implemented standardized online assessments using HackerRank which were utilized organization-wide to streamline recruitment for both graduate and experienced candidates
DBX
Feb 2023 - Present
- Developed Remote Digital Signature workflow as a service for bank's customers
- Developed products marketplace for retail and corporate customers of the banks with self purchase and appointment booking process
- Contributed towards creating an automated Loan approval workflow using Kogito BPMN and Quarkus applications
- Automated deployment of Quarkus Java applications in Kubernetes clusters
Payments Team - JustWalkout Stores
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Affected by the layoff of whole India vertical due to restructuring of business.
Acuris Xtract Research
Feb 2020 - Present
- Responsible for development, deployment and maintenance of public Xtract application on AWS and Redhat OpenShift
- Keyword based search on documents and deals using OpenSearch and Document matching and approvals using custom tokenization of document content
- Document management using AWS S3 and MongoDB with real-time integration with Microsoft SharePoint using Microsoft Graph API, RestAPI, and webhooks
ARC (Agregation and Reporting)
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
- Improve performance of SQL queries by 80% by implementing configurable
multi-column indexes on in-memory data.
Using XML to provide configuration of data model and index and Java for implemntaiton on server. - Automated release of clients facing and internal documentation from version control using
WordPress, Python and Docker.
Removed the delays in solution release by automating the documenation reviews.
ION-FX STP (WSS FX)
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
- Developed back-office STP (Straight Through Processing) solution for FX trades using
Java, Hibernate and MySQL.
Involved from the initial analysis, development to client deployments and monitoring for the solution. - Automated the client deployments and monitoring for the solution using Jenkins, Ansible and Nagios. Reduced deployment time by 70% on client environments (both linux and windows machines).
- Release Management Tracking Portal
Initiated, analysed, and implemented an internal portal for product management to visualise, track, and create client releases using Python and Django. Provided easy deployment using blue-green deployment methedology.
Foreign Exchange Sales Portal
July 2016 - Jan 2017
- Implemented low latency multi threaded application to stream and aggregate prices from liquidity providers using Java. Responsible for setup of the CI pipeline using Docker and Jenkins.
My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, send me a message!