Sameer Hameed
Vice President @Citi
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President @Citi
London, GB
Vice-president, Regional Lead Project: Connectivity and Market Data • Lead the EMEA team by providing expertise in designing and implementing high volume, low latency and resilient solutions.• Redesign, maintain, and develop gateways supporting formats like FIX, SBE, MDF, JSON, and XML over TCP/IP.• Improve quality by enabling/defining matrices around transactions, memory utilization, garbage collection, etc.• Integrate centralized solutions like SonarQube, Elastic Search, Grafana, ITRS, BlackDuck, and Request tracking.• Coordinating with different regional and global leads on critical projects, and improvements to achieve Citi and division vision. Technologies Used: Java 8/11/17, Spring Boot, Gradle, Python, Git, Chronical solutions, Agrona, FastUtils, ElasticSearch, ITRS, BlackDuck, JMS, Kafka, Grafana, Oracle DB
EDUCATION
Jamia Hamdard
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science
Ludlow Castle No - 2
High School, Commerce
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Advanced Certification from IIT Madras, Machine Learning and Cloud
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT SAMEER HAMEED
Technical Architect with 15+ years of experience in designing and implementing low-latency, scalable, and distributed applications within the financial trading and eTrading domains. Currently responsible for modernizing Market Making and Trade eTrading applications in the Corporate Bond domain at Citigroup.Member of the core innovation group driving AI, RPA, and Blockchain PoCs with hands-on certifications in AWS, AI, and Blockchain (Corda).Deeply passionate about the evolving role of AI in enterprise automation, actively exploring LLM integration and autonomous agents to optimize workflows.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Improved system latency from ms to ~25 ms by redesigning applications around low-latency frameworks (Citi Ambrosia). Achieved 500% throughput growth and onboarded 10+ trading venues in the last 2 years.• Designed and implemented a microservice-based regulatory reporting system to submit over 300M transactions for back-reporting — resulting in $500K+ annual savings (Aug 2020).• Reengineered the authorization framework for the compliance division, setting up centralized authentication and authorization — saved 2,100+ hours annually across projects and earned a Green Belt Certification (Jan 2018).• Delivered a message regeneration utility for the Philippines Stock Exchange, integrating NASDAQ trading protocols, saving over $400K and earning a Lean Level 2 Certification (Jan 2016).• Automated the inventory snapshot generation process, reducing turnaround time from 8–10 days to ~3 hours and earning a Lean Level 1 Certification (Mar 2012).SUMMARY• 15+ years in designing, developing, and modernizing low-latency, distributed systems in financial markets.• Expertise in microservices, real-time market data, and eTrading platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Python.• Skilled in Chronicle Queue, LMAX Disruptor, and Ambrosia for ultra-low-latency performance.• Experienced in Kafka, Solace, Apache MQ, JMS, and FIX-based streaming for pricing and trade connectivity.• Proficient with SQL/NoSQL databases – SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, KDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB.• Hands-on with DevOps tools – Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Git, and monitoring via Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, BlackDuck.• Exposure to AI/ML integration and LLM-based automation using OpenAI API, LangChain, and LangGraph.• Active participant in AI, RPA, and Blockchain initiatives, combining innovation with practical engineering to deliver measurable efficiency gains.
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