Gaurav Joshi

• Head a 20+ member global engineering organization across APAC, EMEA, and AMER, delivering high-volume data platforms and cloud-native application transformation.
• Engineered a remote-file database loading approach that bypassed restrictive Network Attached Storage (NAS) dependencies, successfully enabling the cloud migration of a critical data-heavy application from legacy VMs to containerized cloud environments.
• Eliminated a 4–5 hour data extraction bottleneck by replacing synchronous user-interface downloads with a high-throughput, asynchronous Python-based extraction engine leveraging five parallel processing streams.
• Minimized recurring system failures caused by database connection and memory constraints via process-based connection pooling and dataset pre-caching, stabilizing high-volume instrument-level data workflows.
• Spearheaded an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka messaging pipelines to integrate Java/Spring microservices with Python analytics engines, distributed data stores, and AWS cloud environments.

Led reconciliation technology initiatives for global markets, solving complex data challenges and eliminating operational
bottlenecks across trade, position, and cash processing. Awards: YMD (You Make Difference) | Core Value - Openness |
Core Value - Client Focused Delivery | Core Value - Relationship
 Eliminated a long-standing LME operational-risk gap by reverse-engineering non-standard London Metal Exchange
trade formats and creating a custom mapping layer outside the platform's rigid ingestion model.
 Slashed down Sybase ASE processing time from 45+ minutes to less than 5 minutes by developing a temporary-table
ranking and indexing approach for targeted data subsets.
 Resolved trade cross-multiplication issues by engineering a ranking mechanism for similar-quantity trades despite
the absence of native RANKORDER functionality in Sybase ASE.
 Strengthened global reconciliation application delivery for 350+ markets across APAC, Europe, and North America.
 Mainframe-to-Linux Modernization: Co-led migration of Cash and Trade data repositories from Mainframe DB2 to
DB2 Linux, reducing legacy technology dependency and enabling platform modernization.

Managed enterprise trade and position data platforms while engineering performance improvements for liquidity
calculations and downstream financial-risk processes. Award: Gold Award
 Shortened Java-side liquidity calculation time from 45 minutes to 10 minutes by implementing Flyweight-pattern
caching and reusing common instrument data across regions.
 Cut database processing from 10 minutes to 2–3 minutes by calculating only missing instruments and introducing a
reusable static repository, creating an enriched data source for downstream financial workflows.
 Managed high-volume financial data platforms processing 6M+ trades and 300+ feeds daily across 70+ products,
supporting critical downstream risk, regulatory, treasury, and finance functions.
 Rules Engine & Risk Analytics: Architected a trade-liquidity identifier engine with end-to-end auditability, enabling
line-by-line traceability of liquidity rules and Basel 3 haircut calculations.

Led application development and technology initiatives across Shopping, Travel, and Real Estate while managing teams,
automation, and high-volume data-processing solutions. Awards: Best Debutant | Earned 2 promotions and a Best
Performance Award | International Exposure: San Mateo, California | Jan 2007 - Mar 2007
 Reduced data aggregation time by 60% by engineering high-throughput normalization and consolidation pipelines
using AWK and shell scripting for unstructured eBay market data.
 Visual Search Engineering: Selected for an extended on-site engagement with Like.com in San Mateo, CA,
contributing to visual-search algorithm direction for image-based product discovery prior to its acquisition by Google
 Enabled sub-second search retrieval across millions of records by building a custom shopping platform using Joomla
and a Sphinx-based search engine.
 Led teams of 5-10 resources across multiple concurrent projects while managing application development, delivery,
and client coordination.

Managed resource operations, reporting automation, stakeholder coordination, and internal technology-enabled process
improvement initiatives.