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Anil Gurnani Key Accomplishments In a joint collaboration with business, operations and technology, leading a distributed team of analysts, architects and developers to define and deliver new digital products and technology platforms for Investment Performance and Analytics at BNY Mellon. Technology stack is Java, Spring Boot, Python, Flask, Angular and Oracle/DB2/Hadoop/Kudu/Hazelcast on private cloud with Docker/Kubernetes. Solution includes a large number of analytical visualizations for institutional investors. Widgets include exposures to countries, currencies, geographies, asset types, performance attribution, historical market values, Stress and Sensitivity Analysis and comprehensive performance summary and ESG Analytics. Led the buildout of Post Trade Processing application at BNY Mellon using Agile methodology for a large hedge fund that trades in all types of asset classes including OTC derivatives like CDS, CDX, IRS, and TRS. I was managing multiple scrum teams that were located in India, Pittsburgh and Jersey City locations. Helped Mphasis increase annual sales to $100 million from $50 million by creating a unique strategy based on thought leadership. Organized seminars and webinars on emerging technologies and helped provide innovative solutions to various business requirements across the entire account. Also improved thought leadership ranking to #1 from #5 within JPMC account. Was part of the team that built the platform for broker-dealers in JPMC. I led the architecture, design and development of a solution for moving Account, Position, and Entitlement data from Mainframe to distributed database to meet a key requirement for same-day-trading on the platform. Also delivered several other projects in Trading and Accounts areas of the workstation including bulk- upload of orders and portfolio rebalancing. Built an end to end online e- trading platform for National Discount Brokers – ndb.com – pioneer in online stock trading. The new platform enabled NDB to go from 60 orders per day to nearly 100,000 orders per day and a valuation of $1 billion from around $200 million prior to the platform build. Anil Gurnani – [email protected] (732) 763-8762 Page 1 of 5

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Anil GurnaniKey Accomplishments

In a joint collaboration with business, operations and technology, leading a distributed team of analysts, architects and developers to define and deliver new digital products and technology platforms for Investment Performance and Analytics at BNY Mellon. Technology stack is Java, Spring Boot, Python, Flask, Angular and Oracle/DB2/Hadoop/Kudu/Hazelcast on private cloud with Docker/Kubernetes. Solution includes a large number of analytical visualizations for institutional investors. Widgets include exposures to countries, currencies, geographies, asset types, performance attribution, historical market values, Stress and Sensitivity Analysis and comprehensive performance summary and ESG Analytics.

Led the buildout of Post Trade Processing application at BNY Mellon using Agile methodology for a large hedge fund that trades in all types of asset classes including OTC derivatives like CDS, CDX, IRS, and TRS. I was managing multiple scrum teams that were located in India, Pittsburgh and Jersey City locations.

Helped Mphasis increase annual sales to $100 million from $50 million by creating a unique strategy based on thought leadership. Organized seminars and webinars on emerging technologies and helped provide innovative solutions to various business requirements across the entire account. Also improved thought leadership ranking to #1 from #5 within JPMC account.

Was part of the team that built the platform for broker-dealers in JPMC. I led the architecture, design and development of a solution for moving Account, Position, and Entitlement data from Mainframe to distributed database to meet a key requirement for same-day-trading on the platform. Also delivered several other projects in Trading and Accounts areas of the workstation including bulk-upload of orders and portfolio rebalancing.

Built an end to end online e-trading platform for National Discount Brokers – ndb.com – pioneer in online stock trading. The new platform enabled NDB to go from 60 orders per day to nearly 100,000 orders per day and a valuation of $1 billion from around $200 million prior to the platform build.

Major Strengths Unique combination of technical expertise and business knowledge, and leadership experience. Excellent communication and presentation skills with entrepreneurial drive. Over 20 years of experience in building high performance Financial Software based systems and platforms

working with business users and clients. Successfully delivered on very large scale enterprise projects with extremely high throughput and performance requirements.

Domain expertise in Financial Software, particularly eTrading and Investment Management technology including Alternate Investments, RoboAdvisor, Portfolio Valuation, Portfolio Rebalancing, Order Capture, Order Management, Trade Capture, Trade Processing of Exchange Traded as well as OTC trades

Technical expertise in architecting and developing distributed applications and systems using Core Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE Application Servers, Python, Portal servers, database systems, REST/SOAP Web Services, Messaging Services and distributed cache solutions, with expertise in TIBCO EMS, TIBCO RV, IBM MQ, Oracle, BEA WebLogic, and Gemfire.

Solid understanding of modern technologies including AWS, Mobile (iOS, Android), AngularJS, NodeJS, Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, MapReduce, Apache Kafka and Semantic Web.

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June 2016 – PresentBNY Mellon

Leading the build out of client facing investment performance & analytics platforms for Asset Owner segment of clients. Visualizations include Historical Performance, Historical Market Value, Performance Attribution Analysis, Geographic, Currency, Security and Counterparty exposure, Contribution to Return, Asset Allocation, ESG, Stress and Sensitivity Analysis among others. Managing multiple scrum teams across 3 locations.

Application Development Lead for trade processing product Trade Booker in the OnCore platform for Middle Office Services business which provides Investment Book of Record and Accounting Book of Records to high end Asset Management firms. Platform processes all types of asset classes including complex OTC Derivatives. Was managing multiple scrum teams across 3 locations.

Jan 2014 – June 2016Mphasis Corporation

Technology Partner for strategic accounts in Banking and Capital Markets domain with focus on Brokerage and Wealth Management and Big Data Solutions as well as Blockchain

Lead Digital Technology transformations and application modernization for clients Lead and participate in Technology presentations and discussions at CxO level Organize and present at new and emerging technology workshops at client locations Build and mentor team of senior Enterprise / Solution Architects engaged in developing Proof of Concepts for

presentation to clients Led scrum teams for all architects for the JP Morgan account from Mphasis. Lead and participate in business development, pre-sales activities with Sales – including identifying relevant

technology use cases and preparing detailed solution presentations for CxO level clients Lead multi-million $ opportunity pursuits managing internal groups to put together a proposal including detailed

architecture and development methodologies and team size

May 2006 – December 2013Bear Stearns and J P Morgan Chase (Application Developer Lead/Technical Program Manager) My most recent project was in Prime Brokerage group building a high performance Reference Data platform for all asset classes including Fixed Income, Equity and Derivatives, using Web Services and TIBCO EMS messaging to acquire, store, and distribute key reference data for all asset classes including Options and Derivatives. Key components of the platform include:

1. Feed framework to manage internal and external data feeds,2. Processes to cleanse, profile, prepare and cross reference data from all vendors,3. Dashboard for viewing/manipulating data and score cards, and4. APIs to access data and delta updates over Web Services, and message queues to over 200 applications in

Investor Services group. Previously in the Broker Dealer technology group I was given the responsibility of bringing all account, entitlement, and positions data to the front end applications to enable same-day trading for CISC analysts. Additionally, I managed various Trading related projects including portfolio rebalancing, managed accounts, bulk order trading, and several significant enhancements to the proprietary Order Management System – COSMOS.In a previous role, I led the design and development of a data container library in C++ with a Python layer that powers many quantitative finance applications across the entire Investment Bank as the glue for integrating disparate applications and run on Grid platform in JPMC. Prior to that, I led several major projects including an application to propagate mainframe data including entitlements, accounts, positions, and instruments via JMS to front end Databases for use by over 200 applications in the Broker Dealer group. My responsibility as technical leader was to work with the Product Development to clearly define the requirements, layout the architecture and design for the systems in compliance with the firm’s architecture direction, work with development teams to build the systems, coordinate with QA and Release management teams for successful

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implementation of the systems into production and train the operations group in providing first level support while maintaining third level support schedules for my team. Prior to that, I was involved in several enterprise-wide software development initiatives including a web based application for Prime Brokerage, built using TIBCO GI and J2EE, a robust messaging architecture with TIBCO EMS, TIBCO RV and IBM MQ for services and Gemfire distributed cache, a set of cross language and cross platform libraries for common data representation, and a set of common C# assemblies for use in software applications across the Enterprise. Major user groups are in Equities, Equity Derivatives, and Fixed Income. All projects involved multiple languages (C#, C++ and Java) and multiple platforms (Linux, Windows). All development work was done in Agile Scrum teams led by me.

Mar 2005 to May 2006TheMuniCenter (Senior Java/J2EE Lead)As Senior J2EE Lead, I was responsible for “core” and “b2b” components of their Fixed Income Securities trading system. “Core” is the heart of the trading system where offers and bids are maintained and trades are generated, and “b2b” is the component that communicates with partners. Products supported were various types of US Government Securities, Agencies, Municipal Bonds, and Corporate Bonds. I was also responsible for managing day to day operations and system configurations. I reviewed and redesigned some key components of the system to improve performance by nearly 3000 percent. I was also responsible for analyzing user requirements and architecting/designing solutions and then implementing them. I worked on designing the new FIX API for trading Municipal Bonds with Bloomberg and Citigroup. The entire system was built using Java/J2EE and runs on Sun Solaris and Linux servers.

Jan 1997 to Mar 2005ONCR Inc . Owner, Managing Director Managed and delivered multiple projects for financial services clients. Also actively consult on site sometimes when necessary. Key systems and software projects are as follows:

Web based stock trading application for ElephantxOnline including a backend FIX server with JMS to route Orders to various applications within the enterprise. The system helped increase order processing by more than 100 percent.

CFX_CYBERCASH and CFX_PROTOBASE custom tags for Cold Fusion using C++ on Windows NT, Solaris and Linux. Both these tags are DLLs (shared objects on Linux and Sun) that communicate with Cybercash and Protobase servers respectively over TCP/IP Sockets using a proprietary protocol. The product was the first and was behind numerous eCommerce web sites.

National Discount Brokers’ online stock trading application based on Netscape Application Server. Ndb.com consistently received number 1 rating from Gomez Advisor for its technology and was eventually sold for nearly $1 billion.

July 1994 to Jan 1997Leading Edge Systems - ConsultantWorked on Various consulting assignment in India and US – Bombay Stock Exchange, Eastman Kodak, Phillip Morris, Physicians Online among others working in C++ and Java development projects.

Oct 1988 to June 1994Sun Micro Systems, Lotus Corporation – Software Engineer Developed several software applications using C++ in the High Tech industry in Silicon Valley for companies including Sun Microsystems, Lotus, and Apple Computer Inc. Key achievements were SunWingZ, an integrated Office suite for Sun Workstations and Lotus cc:Mail – an email client for Windows and Macintosh systems.Certifications EducationCloudera Spark and Hadoop Developer MBA – Technology

ManagementStevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJUC San Diego Hadoop Platform and Application

FrameworkDataStax Certified Architect on Apache Cassandra MS – Technology Stevens Institute of Anil Gurnani – [email protected] (732) 763-8762 Page 3 of 4

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Management Technology, Hoboken, NJAmazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect - Associate

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