Murali Ponnada

Equities Derivatives Trading Platform

• Built and maintained APIs delivering real-time trade position data to downstream consumers, using parallel processing and caching to handle high request volume with low latency while protecting P&L and dividend workflows.
• Led design and launch of a financial regulatory reporting flow within a legacy system — improving handling of instruments, transactions, and position data with zero SLA breaches during rollout.
• Contributed to high-volume equities derivatives workflows supporting up to ~7M daily trade records, leveraging concurrency, Quartz scheduling for sub-second processing latencies, and caching to improve reliability and production stability.
• Migrated messaging infrastructure across multiple servers, improving latency by ~10% and reliability by ~12% in critical trading workflows.
• Implemented observability with Grafana, Kibana, and Splunk, reducing production incidents by ~8% and enabling faster root-cause analysis.
• Partnered with product owners and cross-functional teams on deliverables; documented APIs and workflows to improve onboarding and reduce knowledge silos.

Brain Aging Study — Neuroimaging Data Analysis

• Enhanced MATLAB pipelines to process raw brain scan sequences from 54 subjects into blood flow heatmaps for quantitative comparison.
• Compared cerebral blood flow patterns across age and demographic segments, surfacing statistically meaningful insights on neural aging dynamics.

CIRRUS — Middle Office Regulatory Reporting

• Improved trade processing and end-of-day risk systems on the Quartz platform for Bank of America, resolving issues with currency conversions, FX trades, and trade record masking.
• Enhanced valuations processing and event-type generation logic, improving exposure reporting accuracy by ~20%, reducing errors by ~30%, and increasing transaction reporting accuracy by ~10%.
• Contributed to regulatory reporting workflows processing ~1M trades/day across FX, EQ, IR, and CR asset classes; resolved reporting issues affecting ~100K daily trades.
• Implemented compliance coverage for CFTC, MiFID, HKMA, SEC, ASIC, and EMIR regulatory standards.
• Served as Level 3 (L3) escalation point for production incidents; traced impact across hardware, network, and service operations.
• Contributed to regulatory impact assessments and design reviews with stakeholders across asset classes.