Sunil Sarolkar

Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded the architectural migration of legacy financial platforms to Google Cloud (GCP), reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and improving scalability.

AI/ML Innovation: Architected and deployed GenAI solutions for "Community of Practice," enabling business users to leverage LLMs for automated document processing and insight generation.

Engineering Excellence: Led the development of "Feed and Adjustment Workstation," a critical accounting sub-ledger system processing millions of daily transactions. Optimized data pipelines using Spark and BigQuery.

Team Management: Mentored a cross-functional team of 10+ engineers, establishing best practices in CI/CD, microservices architecture (Spring Boot), and TDD.

Key Projects:

  • Structform: Designed a high-performance Data Transformation Engine using Transformer models, achieving 99% accuracy in mapping complex financial message formats.

  • GenAI Test Automation: Built a LangChain-based framework to automate JUnit test case generation, cutting developer testing time by 40%.

Core Systems Development: Played a pivotal role in the "Global Securities Infrastructure (GSI)" initiative, designing robust backend services for managing complex stock and cash positions.

Quality Assurance: Engineered a custom TestSuite using JUnit for comprehensive end-to-end testing of position management applications, significantly reducing production defects.

Performance Optimization: Refactored critical database queries and application logic, resulting in a 20% improvement in transaction processing speed.

Trading Platform Development: Core contributor to the award-winning "Barracuda" trading platform. Collaborated directly with global stakeholders in the UK and US to interpret and implement complex DFA regulatory requirements.

System Integration: successfully integrated the trading platform with major external financial networks (DTCC, MarkitWire), ensuring seamless real-time data exchange.

Crisis Management: provided critical disaster recovery support for the trading desk during Hurricane Sandy, ensuring business continuity.

Data Product Development: Developed analytical engines for Credit Bureau reports using Java/J2EE ecosystem (Struts, Spring, Hibernate).

Risk Analytics: Built the "Overlap Report" and "Incidence High Default (IHD)" report generators, key products used by banks for risk assessment and decision-making.