Girish Vijayakumar
Global Head of Business Development, Trading Services, HR and Compensation Technology at Millennium Management
- Role
- Global Head of Business Development, Trading Services, HR and Compensation Technology at Millennium
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Girish Vijayakumar
Senior engineering leader with 28 years of experience in hedge fund, asset management and financial services. Proven record delivering enterprise-scale platforms, data architectures, and AI-driven solutions supporting investment, trading, finance, legal and HR functions.Currently leading global engineering teams at Millennium Management. Ownership of mission-critical systems across Business Development, Portfolio Manager (PM) prospecting, PM onboarding, PM payout modeling, Trading Services reference data, HR applications, and firmwide authorization and entitlements platform. Direct management of 45+ engineers across New York, Miami, Dublin, Singapore, and India.Deep expertise across cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, API-first architecture, DevOps/SRE, data engineering, and platform reliability, with a proven ability to partner closely with investment, portfolio management, finance, legal, and HR leadership. Brings strong capability in designing, scaling, and operating production-grade AI platforms for legal and payout contract intelligence, applying agentic, multi-agent AI architectures and modern data platforms to consistently improve accuracy, contract review speed, onboarding efficiency, and end-user throughput, while upholding high standards for governance, reliability, and operational excellence.
Experience
Global Head of Business Development, Trading Services, HR and Compensation Technology
Aug 2022 — Present · NY, US
Building LLM-based document intelligence solutions for legal and payout contracts, using agentic architectures and multi-agent orchestration integrated with RAG frameworks, vector stores, and scalable data pipelines. • Portfolio Manager prospecting and business development application build outs.• Formulaic payout model development across the multi manager/multi strategy business lines.• Portfolio Manager onboarding applications and Trading Services Reference data management applications/Workflow buildouts.• Managed the build out of payout recommendation platform for non-trading business groups.• Build out of the firmwide authentication and data authorization platform supporting AI and MCP applications.
Education
College of Engineering Trivandrum
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
1993 — 1997
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