Sunil Patil
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Experience
Fixed Income Repo E-Trading Business and Engineering SME & PM
BBVA · Jan 2025 – Present
- - Fixed Income Repo E-Trading Greenfield Project
- - Leading the firm’s strategic vision to grow, automate, and modernise the fixed income repo business through the implementation of ION Anvil execution, client order management, and STP solutions across D2D and D2C repo platforms.
- - Collaboration with stakeholders on strategic planning, shaping sponsor buy-in by defining project scope, conducting cost-benefit analyses, setting priorities, and achieving consensus.
- - Budget creation, resource planning, solution architecture, implementation planning, service level
- agreements, support processes and target operating model.
- - Providing biweekly updates to the Steering Committee and key stakeholders.
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Product Designer - Founding & Sole Designer
Wealthbeacon Investment Advisors Pvt. Ltd. | OTTO MONEY · Apr 2024 – Present
- Owned 100% of design from day one - no team, no playbook.
- Built an Al-based financial investment advisor app end-to-end across product, brand, and web.
- Designed 300-400+ screens for a complex Al investment advisor app (0-1) - covering user research, IA, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI - shipped in 9 months as the sole designer.
- Achieved 4.8 App Store & 4.6 Play Store ratings with 3,000+ active users and 5,000+ total downloads within 6 weeks of launch.
- Built a scalable design system from scratch - ensuring Ul consistency across 300+ screens and streamlining design-to-dev handoff.
- Designed two websites (20,000+ combined visitors) plus offline service touchpoints - owning the full brand experience across digital and physical.
- Created investor-facing product mocks and pitch assets that supported a pre-seed fundraise - translating early-stage vision into credible product narrative.
- Collaborated daily with Google-background founders - operating at a high design bar, contributing to product strategy, and aligning design decisions with business and fundraising goals.
- Designed brand identity end-to-end - logo, typography, color system - establishing a coherent identity in a competitive Al fintech market.
- Leveraged Al tools (Stitch Al, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate prototyping and iteration - enabling faster design cycles as a team of one.
Fixed Income Front Office (ION Anvil) Greenfield Project-Technology & Business SME & PM
SMBC Group · May 2021 – Oct 2024
- - Worked towards the firm’s vision to expand and transform the fixed income business.
- - Led the greenfield project (RFP till go-live) to roll out a new front office platform ION Anvil,
- transform the existing systems which fulfills the vision by giving the business the ability to offer
- structured and complex products to its clients and grow the business multiple folds
- - Involved in strategy planning with the stakeholders, influencing the sponsors by defining the scope, getting an agreement and managing their expectations.
- - Defining the business process flow for the new business expansion.
- - Leading the greenfield project to roll-out a new front office platform ION Anvil, transform the existing systems which fulfills the vision by giving business the ability to offer structured and complex products to its clients and grow the business multiple folds.
- - Vanilla & structured Repos, Centrally Cleared repos using LCH Repoclear, Triparty, SecLending products front-to-back systems support, operational and cross functional support across multiple legal entities.
- - Major electronic trading venue integration.
- - Settlements, Risk, regulatory, head office reporting stakeholder engagement and drive their respective changes to support the new products.
- - Designed and approval of future state system architecture.
- - Coordinate with internal application owners and multiple external vendors.
- - Lead RFP process with 6 specialist vendors, project initiation, BRD, FS, design, implementation planning & defining test strategies, support procedures.
- - Budgeting, resourcing and project planning.
- - Weekly stakeholder, working group & monthly SteerCo reporting preparation.
Global Product Engineering - Front Office Trading(FIS Apex) at Nomura Investment Bank- Fixed Income
Nomura · Apr 2014 – Apr 2021
- - Leading the Global Trading platform (Multi-threaded C++ on Linux) used for managing firm’s
- Global Fixed Income Rates, Credit & EM businesses involving multi-Billion daily transactions.
- - Designed and led the team for greenfield implementation supporting the Trade booking model
- across multiple asset classes, managing the entire trade lifecycle, Position management, STP from
- external BBG & Broker systems, numerous integrations with internal systems – Backoffice,
- Settlements, Risk & Static Data systems.
- - Own the application core and responsible for recommending, enhancing, approving the changes
- required for delivering new requirements without creating any breaks and prevent any ops risk.
- - Engaging directly with business heads (desk, sales) for their requirements and focusing on
- delivering solutions to help them efficiently manage their daily PnL.
- - In depth knowledge of Securities Lending Business (both Repos and Equities) and assist the team
- globally to resolve their regional Pricing, PnL and various risk calculation issues.
- - Led the team for automation driven implementation ensuring minimal manual intervention with
- the aim to achieve 100% 24/5 availability.
- - Responsible for Product roadmap planning, prioritizing work and delivery management following
- SDLC and Agile methodology.
- - Review, recommend and regularly plan application infrastructure upgrades in line with the firm's
- strategic vision.
- Driving the global team to adopt newer technologies – latest being the adoption
- of internal cloud infrastructure and various SDLC toolchains.
Front Office Product Consultant (tinyurl.com/3fhhnlfv)
Sungard Securities Finance · Jun 2010 – Apr 2014
- - Designed the Trade booking models for Fixed Income Repos and Equities produces within a single
- platform to take the product to next level to make it adaptable for several clients and helped in
- winning new clients.
- - Delivered greenfield projects for three major financial services clients and drove the entire
- program starting from scoping exercise to final delivery.
- - Created highly custom C++ JDBC interface with core C++ engine to support entire trade booking
- model and lifecycle management including static data interfaces to make it highly integrable with
- other banking products.
Senior Technical Consultant - UBS Investment Banking, London
UBS Investment Bank · Apr 2006 – Jun 2010
- - Designed and developed Credit Risk platform used by Risk managers to manage counterparty
- exposures across various products.
- This helped the firm detect the counterparty defaults at an early
- stage and improve the collateralization process.
- - Enhanced the Pre-Deal check application to better manage various product limit setting for clients.
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Technical Project Manager
PeerMe Software Technology India Pvt. Ltd · Sep 2004 – Mar 2006
- - Designed and developed Voice and Text chat messenger using Peer-to-Peer technology.
- - Architected the mobile version of the product (for PDAs and Smart phones).
- - Built a team of 15 developers- hiring, task allocation, delivery.
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Technical Lead
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Bangalore, India · May 2003 – Jun 2005
- - Designed and developed Network Management System (NMS) applications to interface and
- manage core Telephony backbone Switches.
- - Developed Fault management system for the core networking switches using SNMP protocol.
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Research & Development Engineer
Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), Bangalore, INDIA · Sep 2000 – May 2003
- - Designed and developed Computer Telephony Switch Software (automatic call distributors
- (ACD), IVR with Customer Database, Desktop FAX, Monitoring and MIS Report generation)
- using the Intel’s Dialogic voice processing hardware and its device driver API’s.
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Bachelor of Design, User Experience
Srinivas University, Mangalore · 2019 — 2023
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