Gowthami CC
Bengaluru
Summary
Quantitative Developer with 15 years of experience in multi-asset risk model development, specializing in equity and equity-derivatives. Extensive experience building real-time risk platforms, derivative-sensitive analytics, and P&L attribution across equities, equity derivatives, swaps, and fixed income. Expertise in platform engineering and enterprise-grade solution delivery, serving as a solution architect and developer. Proven track record in creating scalable systems and executing end-to-end solutions across DevOps, analytics, and data engineering. Strong collaborator with multiple teams, delivering architecture artifacts and guiding product roadmaps while promoting agile leadership and innovation.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Quant Developer
Fidelity
Bengaluru
04.2019 - Current
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for the Risk-On-The-Fly platform, enabling real-time computation of portfolio- and position-level risk analytics, including risk decomposition, factor and position attribution, entity analytics, and stress testing.
- Developed scalable Data-API services to efficiently retrieve, aggregate, and serve risk and reference data from databases with low latency to support downstream analytics and applications.
- Built a Chameleon-based coverage logic to systematically identify and map uncovered or newly added securities to Barra analytics using factor-driven grouping across instrument type, size, style, and geography.
- Designed and implemented linked specific risk calculations for multiple models, deriving specific covariance using factor exposures and correlation matrices, and merging diagonal and cross-security components across asset classes to improve portfolio risk accuracy.
- Architected a low-latency data retrieval strategy to satisfy , reducing database residency time by leveraging EFS-backed caching for frequently accessed risk and analytics data.
- Extensively worked with Raw holdings, entity holdings, index holdings, security exposures and risk views.
- Streamlined various risk payloads to make the risk platform to enterprise grade.
- Architected a centralized AutoSys deployment pipeline adopted by multiple squads, resulting in the deployment and orchestration of 800+ batch jobs across enterprise workflows.
Developer
Fidelity
01.2019 - Current
- A significant discretionary change was implemented for the Cobra kits.
- An enhancement tool was developed to prevent the forced closure of an event when an active personal fact sheet or Cobra kit is in active status for the same life event of a participant which saved Fidelity from many penalties.
- Worked closely with External Audit teams to ensure code compliance, db user name and password compliance and protect security violations.
- During the Annual Enrollment period, the Client facilitates exceptions for a participant or dependent using distinct override functionality separate from other participants.
- Collaborated with multiple teams on architecting the functionalities for override eligibility, option override, and rate override.
- Collaborated with the team to troubleshoot numerous research and analysis tickets, frequently encountering failing jobs, and addressed the areas of failure.
- Worked in developing 'Automated Account Management' module to validate the data against the business requirements and created work items.
- Health Care Domain- Health and Other Benefits System(HOBS). HOBS is an oracle-based system, customized by Fidelity, to manage participant health and welfare benefit records.
Lead Developer
I-byk
Bangalore
07.2016 - 04.2019
- Architected a mobile application and with a cloud based management dashboard to deploy and manage bicycles.
- Led the development of design specification document to implement the tech solution powering I-byk.
- Led and coordinated with a team of 6 engineering from IITM including UI/UX, data analytics and product.
- Developed linear regression based prediction models to identify the rental count on various days by the week and time.
- Forecasted volumes using various cross validation prediction and evaluated the key metrics considering environmental and seasonal variations.
- Used Decision tree and Random forest models to divide the city into various zones for establishing parking lots and estimating vehicle requirements based on various parameters like commercial establishments, schools, restaurants etc.
- Built PowerBI Visualization using the historical and forecasted values to explain the forecasting methodology.
- An award winning mobile-first tech Solution, to provide micro mobility solutions with bicycle-sharing services.
Developer
Techno tree
Bangalore
07.2012 - 11.2014
- Refactoring of the dependent telecom modules into independent modules to make them work across multiple vendors.
- Successfully implemented comprehensive rental and advanced rental modules, contributing significantly to the overall orchestration process.
- Demonstrates strong teamwork, motivation, and dynamism, coupled with excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Telecom Domain. This product served Telecom Operators Billing (BSS) Services.
Developer
TCS
Chennai
09.2009 - 07.2012
- Developed a Design Document, outlining the framework for the project.
- Formulated functional and technical specifications to guide the development process.
- Prepared a comprehensive design and analysis document for code development.
- Created the Test Plan and authored Unit and System Test Cases to ensure the delivery of quality code.
- Actively participated in the development phase of the project.
- Generated a Traceability Matrix, conducted causal analysis, and performed both Internal Quality Assessment (IQA) and External Quality Assessment (EQA).
- Demonstrated expertise in effectively troubleshooting production issues.
- Retail, Survey and Rating Domain. Developed applications for Michaels, Nielsen.
Education
B.Tech - Industrial Bio-Technology
SASTRA
Tanjore01.2008
Skills
Programming Languages & Frameworks
- Python (Flask, FastAPI)
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Basics of R
- Multithreading and Multiprocessing (Python)
- Parallel computation and workload orchestration
- Low-latency API optimization
- Oracle (SQL, PL/SQL)
- Snowflake
- AWS (EC2, EKS, S3)
- Docker
- Jenkins Core
- AVI Load Balancer
- nox (CI/CD Automation & Quality Enforcement)
- YAML, JSON
- Pytest
- Regression Test Suites
- SonarLint
- Datadog Monitoring
- Apache Kafka
- Insomnia
- Postman
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Model Development & Evaluation)
- Statistical Modeling & Hypothesis Testing
- Feature Engineering, Model Validation & Explainability
Certification
- Software Architecture, Completed an in-house training and architected 3 test projects within Fidelity.
- Azure and AWS Developer Certification, Completed certification.
- Data Science, Certified in statistics, regression models, basics of NLP, deep learning in NPTEL Swayam course.
Awards
- Exceptional Performance, Acknowledged multiple times across projects for delivering exceptional results.
- On the Spot Award, Received on multiple occasions for executing spontaneous tasks that significantly enhanced project productivity and team efficiency.
- Golden Ticket for Application Migration, Attained the 'Golden Ticket' for application migration by conducting security penetration testing and Veracode scans and ensured flawless migration of the Health Of Benefits application.
- Star Of the Month Award, Awarded on multiple occasions for consistent outstanding performance.
Timeline
Quant Developer
Fidelity
04.2019 - Current
Developer
Fidelity
01.2019 - Current
Lead Developer
I-byk
07.2016 - 04.2019
Developer
Techno tree
07.2012 - 11.2014
Developer
TCS
09.2009 - 07.2012
B.Tech - Industrial Bio-Technology
SASTRA