About

Vaibhav Hajela is a seasoned Front Office Java Developer with over 10 years of experience in developing backend server systems. He is an expert in applying design patterns and principles, implementing clean code practices, and developing multi-threaded, cache-friendly, and low latency applications. He has extensive experience in UDP-based messaging systems and other mainstream middlewares, as well as distributed systems with high availability, scalability, and performance. Vaibhav has also demonstrated expertise in data structures and algorithms. Vaibhav has worked on developing Portfolio Trading System to replace Vendor Fidessa trading System, workflows and compliance requirements for Order Management System, and Valdi Next Generation Trading Platform. He has also developed ADR-ORD trading capabilities. His technical skills include Java, Multithreading, Concurrent Package, Spring Framework, Hibernate, SpringBoot, Gigaspaces, Apache IgniteJMS, Tibco EMS, Solace, Oracle, Sybase, PLSQL. Vaibhav possesses in-depth knowledge of Front Office trading systems and a good understanding of Investment Banking. He is currently working as an Associate Director at UBS, where he is leading the development of Cash Equities Portfolio Trading. He has contributed to the implementation of gRPC communication to replace corba-based communication, designed and developed frontend to backend communication in trading system using GRPC protobuf library to decommission Corba architecture, and migrated CI/CD pipeline to GITLAB from GitHub/Teamcity. Vaibhav has also led the migration program for all other Investment Banking Teams. Prior to UBS, Vaibhav worked as a Senior Software Engineer at CLSA and a Senior Engineer Product Development at Fidelity Information Systems (formerly known as Sungard). At Fidelity, he led the development of Valdi Next Generation OMS, an equity and option trading OMS system. He was responsible for analysis and feasibility studies of change requests by customers, requirement gathering with CRM and customers, converting requirements into system design, coding, unit testing, bug fixing, production issue analysis, implementing compliance and regulatory changes by exchanges in the system, performance testing, and bench marking. Vaibhav holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology & Science (SGSITS). He also completed Class XII from K.V.1 Gwalior and Class X from K.V.2 Gwalior. His tech stack includes Java, Backend, CI/CD, Kafka, Spring