Rishank K

- Architecting and implementing innovating solutions to decommission or renovate legacy applications to modernize the firm’s trade processing plan thus reducing infrastructure costs through new code development, refactoring, and comprehensive testing. - Contributing to major architectural decisions that shape the future of the firm's trade processing platform. - Delivering strategic technology solutions to support new business functions that maximize firm's profitability. - Ensuring regulatory compliance & business continuity by devising and implementing technology solutions in partnership with senior stakeholders from Operations and IT teams. - Serving as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the firm's Trade processing platform, delivering hands-on technical support to maintain operational stability, efficiency, and resilience in production environments. - Actively participating in agile ceremonies to ensure best SDLC practices are followed, and the team delivers projects on time.

● Facilitated learning in courses INFO-537 (Tools for Data Science) and INFO-535 (Database Systems) of Information Systems (MSIS) program. ● Designed hands-on coding exercises to reinforce course content, allowing students to apply theoretical concepts in practical scenarios ● Hosted regular office hours, offering personalized assistance to students with coding challenges, questions, and project concerns ● Evaluated coding assignments, projects, and exams, providing fair and constructive grading based on established rubrics

● Automated CI/CD process pipelines that eventually reduced production deployment time by 70-80% and human intervention for execution ● Collaborated with finance stakeholders on understanding business requirements to perform improvements in fee calculation process, increase accuracy and provide resolutions for data quality and miscellaneous issues ● Guided peers and clients as a SME in various business areas of the BC&E fee calculation project ● Engaged in recruitment and mentorship activities across the team and department and guided new joiners into the project

● Onboarded fee calculations for a wide spectrum of products such as Equity, Listed Derivatives, Fixed Income Derivatives & OTC ● Performed various hygiene tasks, and API enhancements and drove initiatives across areas such as plant scaling (vertical & horizontal), DevOps - testing and deployment, process optimization, monitoring & support ● Familiarized and took handovers/ownership of developing and supporting various component areas under the project for fulfilling the absence of departing squad members to avoid any kind of negative business impact ● Received the Super Department Level “Rookie” Award at IST Circle of Excellence Awards 2020. The “Rookie” Award is chosen from the nominated debut talents based on the exceptional contributions by a new joiner

● Maintained and devised solutions for an in-house Java based Brokerage and clearing fees calculation engine which helps to compute/reconcile the firm’s non-comp expenses thus providing the firm opportunity to save money ● Implemented complex fee schedules due to tariff changes influenced by market changes or monthly/quarterly agreements ● Designed an eye-catching dashboard using angular for summarizing application’s regression run analysis

Contingent at Morgan Stanley

Contingent at Morgan Stanley

Coursework: Software Project Management, Database Systems, Object Oriented Design with Design Pattern, Information Systems Security, Management of Systems, Python & Data Mining, Applied Data Mining, Applied Machine Learning, Tools for Data Science, Web Based Info Retrieval & Search, Python Programming Practicum