ICICI Securities

Leading technology powering one of India’s largest digital brokerage platforms, delivering high-availability, low-latency trading systems at scale. Define and execute the firm’s technology vision aligned with business growth, platform scalability, and digital transformation. Secured Board and executive buy-in, translated vision into strategy, and implemented metric-driven governance to track execution and business impact. Lead end-to-end ownership of the in-house trading platform (OMS & RMS) and the broader ecosystem including Mobile, Web, APIs, and Trading Terminals. Architected highly resilient, low-latency, high-concurrency systems with automatic failover across infrastructure layers. Delivered significant engineering and platform improvements: • Improved uptime to 99.95% and eliminated unplanned downtimes through proactive monitoring and reliability engineering • Reduced order latency by 99.6% through architectural redesign and separation of concerns • Scaled order concurrency by 5x by optimizing order processing paths and distributed system performance • Reduced release cycles by 4x by implementing modern developer tooling, automated testing, and secure CI/CD pipelines • Enabled seamless coexistence of cloud-native systems with traditional enterprise infrastructure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and future readiness Established a data-driven digital engineering culture using customer journey analytics, A/B testing, heatmaps, and clickstream insights to improve conversion, usability, and cross-sell. Built and led large in-house engineering teams, instituting best practices to improve productivity, predictability, security, scalability, and delivery excellence.