Zohaib Momin
Tech Leadership
Mumbai,MH
Summary
Experienced tech leader grown from a core full stack development role to a leadership role with more than a decade work experience in building software products.
Clear communicator, decision maker, and problem solver. Immensely passionate, self driven and fanatic about web technologies with scaled Agile practices.
Currently, working at Kotak Securities as Deputy Vice President leading a team to build a scalable trading engine with new age technology. Previously, worked as Engineering Manager at a fast paced startup Upstox ~ helping the platform scale to millions of users.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Deputy Vice President (Sr Engineering Manager)
Kotak Securities
Mumbai, India
05.2019 - Current
- Established team of 15+ techies to build next version of Trading Platform across major exchanges in India - NSE, BSE, MCX
- Responsible for overall development life cycle of micro-services based solution written in Go and Node with hybrid deployment strategy.
- Platform has done over 70,000 crore volume of trades across Indian stock exchanges in span of 10 months.
- Serve as primary decision-maker for internal technology choices, system design, review policies to enhance developer productivity and set up high performing engineering team
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team such as compliance, product managers, tech partners and data providers in developing world class trading platform
- Career management and development of direct reports
Engineering Manager
Upstox
Mumbai, India, India
01.2016 - 05.2019
- Established full stack development on suite of products offering customers to trade & invest in various asset classes such as Mutual funds, Equities and Derivatives
- Develop and implement policies, standards and guidelines for engineering team
- Trading software platform scale from 10k to 5M users in span of 4 years with close to 1M daily active customers.
Senior Software Engineer
Germin8
Mumbai, Maharashtra
07.2011 - 03.2016
- Built multiple features for social media monitoring tool which serves as ORM for B2B enterprises to know what stakeholders are talking on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds
- Skills - Angular, Node JS, Agile
Technology Intern
IIT-Bombay
Bombay, Maharashtra
06.2010 - 05.2011
- Developed fully responsive UI and build several micro-services for internal operations software in spatial data domain.
Education
B.E - Computer Engineering
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering
University Of Mumbai 06.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Agile framework
Product development
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Decision Making
Timeline
Deputy Vice President (Sr Engineering Manager)
Kotak Securities
05.2019 - Current
Engineering Manager
Upstox
01.2016 - 05.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Germin8
07.2011 - 03.2016
Technology Intern
IIT-Bombay
06.2010 - 05.2011
B.E - Computer Engineering
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering
06.2007 - 05.2011