Kashish Ahuja
Software Enginer
Mumbai
Summary
To work in a professional environment that provides learning opportunities and scope for Innovative and creative work which will help in the growth of the organization and enrich Personal experience
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
01.2025 - Current
- Rejoined the Securities Reference Data team as a EMEA lead , overseeing a suite of critical applications and serving as the main point of contact for Development, Operations, and Business teams.
- Leading a team of ~20 , driving application stability, problem management, and incident response.
- Responsible for deep-diving issues, coordinating across teams for root cause analysis, and ensuring timely resolutions.
- Managing stakeholder expectations through regular governance calls, status updates, and alignment on delivery priorities.
- Driving key initiatives and projects focused on improving reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Ensuring smooth collaboration between Dev, Ops, and Business for continuous improvement and platform resilience.
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
04.2022 - 12.2024
- Worked on observability onboarding for Securities Reference Data applications using the ESM stack, improving monitoring and alerting.
- Acted as Product Owner for the SRE squad in SRD space driving reliability and automation efforts.
- Built automation scripts to reduce manual toil and improve system stability.
- Improved resiliency and supportability across the platform by em-bedding SRE practices in development and operations.
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
03.2020 - 03.2022
- Represented the Production Management team within a cross-functional development squad, driving operational excellence and system reliability in alignment with core SRE principles.
- Spearheaded automation initiatives, including:
- Custom scripts to handle data provider notifications and automated issue resolution.
- Development of automated stability reports summarizing application health and platform reliability for stakeholders.
- Led infrastructure realignment efforts aimed at improving supportability, maintainability, and ensuring a more robust disaster recovery posture.
- Conducted a critical database recovery test following a major S1 outage in EGTS, enabling point-in-time recovery (PITR) of both the database and the application — significantly improving resiliency and reducing recovery time in future incidents.
- Drove the decommissioning of legacy and redundant components, simplifying architecture and reducing operational overhead.
- Focused on resilience engineering by validating disaster recovery processes and refining infrastructure configurations to ensure high availability and recoverability.
- Strengthened system observability using Grafana, setting up effective dashboards and alerts (e.g., via Lohii) to proactively monitor key metrics and logs.
- Promoted a culture of simplicity, automation, and proactive reliability within the development squad by em-bedding SRE best practices into everyday workflows.
Vice President
Morgan Stanley Private LTD
09.2016 - 02.2020
- Working as Vice president from last two years and as senior manager prior to getting promoted as VP in Production support role : 4.2 years
- Maintains all the reference data information of products which is also used by Trading Desk and several other applications.
- Official provider of regional close prices for Morgan Stanley.
- Official provider of End of day Prices for Morgan Stanley.
- A historical repository of Products and Pricing ref data.
- Leads local team of 15 candidates in India and Point of escalation for Europe region.
- Troubleshooting database related issues such as open transactions, data corruptions, blockings, High CPU and missing Indexes.
- Doing end to end Incident Management by defining problems and their follow up action items by working in partnership with developers, L2 technical support, DBA’s, Data managements etc.
- Handling production outages for Ref data applications from Production Management perspective and single point of escalation contact for 20+ consultants (Tata Consultancy Services) during a time zone.
- Having weekly forums with leading data providers such as Thomson Reuters, Sungard, Bloomberg, Telekurs and Exshare in order to discuss open issues and bring them to closure.
- Having monthly forums with our key stake holders (Listed Derivatives, Equity Swaps, Fund Services etc) in order to brief them about the occurred outages and discussing on the plan of the closure of the issues.
- Having Weekly Forum with the Development and the Business Analyst team in order to discuss the repetitive incidents and issues for permanent rectification of problems.
- Working closely in the Corporate Action events by creating/executing runbooks to onboard such events for the applications of Ref data which are in scope.
- Designing/Execution of runbooks for various Disaster recovery tests performed by the Event Management team for the in scope ref data applications.
- Good understanding of Reuters and Bloomberg terminals.
- Doing Problem management by analyzing repetitive issues by bucketing them into appropriate problem themes and investigating the probable reasons of their occurrence.
- Doing the Incident write ups of high severity incidents which leads to $ loss to the firm as part of the process called as WIRM and representing it to our Stake holders.
- Automating the manual RFB checks of our plant by creating autosys jobs in order to save the bandwidth of our support team.
- Implementing the RFB’s in monitoring tools which reports the RAG status of the checks.
- Worked on multiple individual short projects assigned to me within the Ref data scope.
- Applications: P2, Daily Pricing, Pricing Renovation Database (PRDB), Horizon.
- Tools: Autosys, ETL (Informatica), DB Artisan, Watchtower, Sockeye, CheckNanny, DNA (Data Network Agreement), Microsoft WinScp, SSh tectia.
- Technologies: Unix, Shell/Perl scripting, PL Sql, Sybase/DB2/KDB.
Reference Data Application Production Management team
SharobiTech Ltd
08.2015 - 09.2016
AM tech, Investment Management Distributed application L2 support
J P Morgan Chase India Private Ltd
08.2008 - 08.2015
- Maintains the Funds related data, these are funds which are traded by JPMorgan globally.
- This is an online trading system used by internal and external clients to invest in JPMorgan Funds.
- JPMorganFunds.com, MobileInsight Application, GlobalLiquidity.com, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and MIS Application.
- Previous Assignment: CIB tech, Core Processing Operate, Mumbai.
- Applications: ACE, FCPP suite of applications, F&O suite of applications, NOVA, Tokyo Gloss, SONAR.
Senior Software Engineer
NUCSOFT Private Limited
07.2006 - 07.2008
- Worked as Consultant at Client side for Citi Bank Group and supported various applications.
- Provided 24
- 7 second line and third line support for Call Sequence including handling high level complaints.
- Reducing the large number of outstanding faults/Exceptions raised by users and carrying out various proactive maintenance activities, to minimize fault levels.
- Debugging, identifying and fixing bugs in VB and Pl/SQL codes.
- Awarded as Promising Debutant within 5 months of joining the project in NUCSOFT.
Education
B-Tech - IT
UMIT
01.2002 - 01.2006
Distance MBA - Finance
ICFAI
01.2011 - 01.2013
Skills
- PL/SQL
- Unix Shell scripting
- Perl
- Python
- Database : Oracle,Sybase,DB2,Snowflake,MongoDB
- Observability tools : Grafana , Promethus , Loki
Core Competencies
Oracle PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripting, Java Basics, Oracle, Sybase, Geneos Active Console, Quest-Foglight, Informatica, Control-M, Autosys, Tidal, Fatwire, OWCS
Personal Information
- Husband's Name: Abhishek Ahuja
- Date of Birth: 05/17/85
- Gender: Female
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
01.2025 - Current
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
04.2022 - 12.2024
Vice President
Morgan Stanley
03.2020 - 03.2022
Vice President
Morgan Stanley Private LTD
09.2016 - 02.2020
Reference Data Application Production Management team
SharobiTech Ltd
08.2015 - 09.2016
Distance MBA - Finance
ICFAI
01.2011 - 01.2013
AM tech, Investment Management Distributed application L2 support
J P Morgan Chase India Private Ltd
08.2008 - 08.2015
Senior Software Engineer
NUCSOFT Private Limited
07.2006 - 07.2008
B-Tech - IT
UMIT
01.2002 - 01.2006
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