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Santhana Krishnan

@santhanakrishnan

Engineering executive at Anchorage Digital leading institutional trading and ledger systems; delivered a zero-disruption ledger migration.

United States

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At Anchorage Digital, I lead engineering for institutional brokerage and cryptocurrency trading systems at a federally chartered digital asset bank. I drove a live, zero-disruption ledger migration spanning trades, transfers, and balance reconciliation.

At Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), I managed a 35+ person engineering organization delivering FIX-based trading infrastructure for 45+ institutional clients. I led a modernization to microservices that achieved sub-millisecond p99 latency, and partnered with regulatory and compliance stakeholders on resilient, audit-ready systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Engineering Head, Trading & Derivatives

Current

Anchorage Digital

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Leading engineering organization developing institutional-grade brokerage and cryptocurrency trading systems for a federally chartered digital asset bank. Drove live cutover of a mission-critical ledger migration with zero client-facing disruption.

Java FIX Protocols Market Connectivity High Frequency Trading Systems Distributed Systems Microservices Architecture Kafka Apache Spark Airflow Kubernetes AWS GCP BigQuery Linux Unix MySQL PostgreSQL Python Observability Risk And Compliance Claude Code

Engineering Manager

Nordstrom

Jun 2021 - Jun 2025 (4 years)

Managed $2M+ annual technology budget and led a team of 16 engineers and 5 data analysts, re-architecting product, pricing, and vendor data feeds using Kafka, Spark, and Airflow on AWS. Led Agile transformation and engineering excellence initiatives resulting in 40% faster release cycles.

Java Kafka Apache Spark Airflow AWS Kubernetes PostgreSQL Python Streaming ETL CI CD

Software Engineering Manager

Numina

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 3 months)

Led engineering team developing real-time automation software for order fulfillment operations, improving operational efficiency and reducing fulfillment costs. Drove talent acquisition strategy and standardized SDLC practices including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

CI CD Testing Automation SDLC Talent Acquisition

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe)

Mar 2001 - Nov 2019 (18 years 8 months)

Managed global engineering organization of 35+ professionals and $5M+ annual technology budget, delivering enterprise-scale trading API and FIX-based market connectivity infrastructure. Led digital transformation from monolithic to microservices architecture achieving sub-millisecond p99 latency.

Java FIX Protocols Market Connectivity Oracle Unix Linux High Frequency Trading Systems Microservices Observability Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

John Deere

May 1999 - Mar 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Built comprehensive JavaScript and JSP application suite for supply chain operations, including enterprise supplier agreements platform, quote tracking, and supplier evaluation systems.

JavaScript JSP Supply Chain

Senior Software Engineer

IBM

Nov 1996 - May 1999 (2 years 6 months)

Architected integrated trade management system for a major stock brokerage firm with real-time National Stock Exchange interfaces and comprehensive trade monitoring capabilities.

Trade Management Real Time Systems NSE