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Madhusudan (Madhu) Mepani

Harrow,Middlesex

Summary

I am a multi-skilled IT professional who has over 20 years of experience in a banking environment. Possessing extensive practical understanding of the software life cycle. More than 15 years of business experience in the Repo market domain including stock borrowing lending and collateral management. Key IT member in developing a major bank's Repo business from a handful of users to more than 60, over the period revenues increased to more than $1billion and number of trades from ~200 to ~40,000 daily trades.

I am a Kubernetes certified developer(π˜Ύπ™†π˜Όπ˜Ώ), knowledgeable in Google Cloud, 𝘾++, π™‡π™žπ™£π™ͺ𝙭 and π™Žπ™Œπ™‡.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Repo/Apex Developer

Lloyds Banking Group
London
08.2022 - 09.2023
  • Helped in migration of Apex off Solaris to Linux RHEL 8 platform
  • Day to day duties managing Jira tickets.
  • Created process to simplify export/importing of DB. Reduce complexity from 5-6 hours to less than 1 hour

Senior Development Specialist

HSBC Bank
London
05.2007 - 08.2022

β€’ Producing high quality software solutions that meets business requirements.
β€’ Source code and release management.
β€’ Acting as consultant within team as SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Martini and Repo space.
β€’ Third line support.
β€’ Conducting daily development team briefings team members.
β€’ Lead architect and acting as mentor to junior team members improving their understanding in both technical and business areas.
β€’ Managing of backend settlement migration from legacy to modern application resulting in improved throughput to settlement system by 50%.
β€’ Managing of migrating Repo business applications off old legacy operating system Solaris to Red Hat Linux improving of throughput of trades by over 100%.
β€’ Key member in rollout of banks Repo application to numerous trading hubs, including London, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Dubai thus improving bank's balance sheet.
β€’ Removal of manual intensive processes to implementing automating solutions resulting in less error prone outcomes.
β€’ Conducting production incident reviews including managing crisis management calls resulting in lower production incidents.

Consultant Developer

UBS
London
08.2005 - 08.2007
  • Developed and implemented efficient reconciliation processes written in C++ to guarantee clean and efficient data.
  • Wrote clean, clear and well-tested code for various projects.
  • Determined system requirements for Repo business to business to expand to other hubs.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics, Statistics and Computing

University of Greenwich
London
09.1984 - 05.1988

Skills

  • Understanding of JMS MQ and IBM WMQ C
  • Good knowledge of C, STL, UML, Object Oriented Analysis and Techniques and Linux
  • Understanding of SQL(Oracle), DevOps, TDD, CI/CD pipeline, Python and Scala
  • Knowledge of Rogue-Wave Source Pro library
  • Understanding of databases and data modelling/design techniques
  • Good knowledge of Fixed Income/Repo/Tri-party market
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) - graduated 2021
  • Alumni of HSBC's prestigious Enterprise Engineer Program
  • Experience of team leadership



Interests

Amateur Astronomer, ECB level 2 cricket coach

Additional Information

I am also an alumni of HSBC's prestigious Enterprise Engineer Program (EEP). This program has yearly intakes of 120 candidates and is open to anyone with an IT background from any country. Thousands apply but after filtering the candidates only a handful are selected. You are taught soft skills for example, time management, mentoring, team dynamics and presentation skills. You are also introduced to upcoming technologies for example, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and BlockChain. At the end of course you are required to present a project to senior management and if selected it becomes a real project. Each candidate is required to pass a certification (from an approved list). I undertook CKAD and passed with a score of 89%.

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Linux Foundation - September 2021

Timeline

Repo/Apex Developer

Lloyds Banking Group
08.2022 - 09.2023

Senior Development Specialist

HSBC Bank
05.2007 - 08.2022

Consultant Developer

UBS
08.2005 - 08.2007

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics, Statistics and Computing

University of Greenwich
09.1984 - 05.1988
Madhusudan (Madhu) Mepani