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Suresh Mekala

@sureshmekala

Development Lead at Citi building low-latency Fixed Income trading platforms with FIX/SBE connectivity.

At Citi, I lead hands-on development of Fixed Income electronic trading components for Rates, Credit and Spread products. I write production Java code supporting FIX and SBE connectivity, streaming, market data, and pre- and post-trade workflows.

At NASDAQ, I led development and regional delivery of a real-time trading risk platform integrated with exchange infrastructure across EMEA and APAC. I contributed to its redesign for deployment across 72 venues and helped increase throughput from 11K to 100K messages per second through performance tuning and technology redesign.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Development Lead, Electronic Trading

Current

Citi Group

Nov 2019 - Present (6 years 10 months)

Lead hands-on architecture, design and development of strategic, high-volume and low-latency electronic trading platform components for Fixed Income. Write and maintain production Java code supporting connectivity and electronic trading capabilities across Rates, Credit and Spread products.

Java 21+Python FIX SBE Solace Kafka AMPS Low Latency Systems High Throughput Streaming Market Data Pre Trade RFQ Post Trade Performance Optimization CI CD Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Terraform Jenkins AWS

Regional Technology Lead, Risk Technology

Nasdaq

Jul 2012 - Nov 2019 (7 years 4 months)

Led development and regional delivery of a real-time trading risk platform integrated with exchange trading infrastructure across EMEA and APAC. Developed connectivity processing for drop-copy trading sessions from exchanges, CCPs, back-office feeds and other sources using FIX and other protocols.

FIX Real Time Risk Exchange Integration High Performance Systems Algorithmic Trading HFT Pre Trade Risk Control Performance Optimization JMeter Jenkins

Development Lead, Algorithmic Trading

Mizuho Securities Asia

Jul 2010 - Jan 2012 (1 year 6 months)

Led an algorithmic trading development team across three locations and helped redesign/build strategy infrastructure from scratch. Developed and implemented agency and proprietary execution strategies including VWAP, TWAP, Iceberg, Sniper, volume inline, arrival price, stop loss, pairs, scalping and long/short.

Algorithmic Trading FIX Fidessa VWAP TWAPs Iceberg Sniper Volume Inline Arrival Price Stop Loss Pairing Scalping Long Short Strategy Back Tests

Senior IT Analyst Developer, Algo Trading System

CLSA

Apr 2007 - Jun 2010 (3 years 2 months)

Developed and enhanced a centralized strategy/execution platform connected to major Asian exchanges, supporting DMA, DSA and OMS flows. Developed market-data handlers consuming Reuters, Bloomberg, ITA and exchange-specific feeds and built FIX connectivity for DSA client order flows.

DMA DSA OMS FIX Market Data Reuters Bloomberg ITA VWAP Volume Inline Implementation Shortfall Iceberg Sniper

Implementation Engineer / Test Lead, Algorithmic Trading

UBS

Apr 2004 - Mar 2007 (2 years 11 months)

Supported deployment and customization of an algorithmic trading platform across Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. Developed automated test frameworks and tools to simulate difficult market scenarios and analyze production issues for strategy tuning.

Algorithmic Trading Testing Automation Unix Perl C Java Market Data Reuters Production Support

Test Lead

Infosys Technologies

Jan 2003 - Mar 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Developed UNIX/Shell/Perl utilities for centralized process control, environment management and production deployment/monitoring. Supported DEV, QA, UAT and production environments and coordinated deployment and stakeholder training.