Anil Dabas

Engineering Leader | 12+ Years Experience

Hong Kongwork@anildabas.com @anildabas GitHub LinkedIn

Summary

With over 8 years of specialization in low-latency, high-frequency trading systems, algo-trading, designing crypto exchanges, and distributed systems with 3+ years in Crypto. My goal is to drive tech leadership, delivering cutting-edge HFT solutions in FinTech leveraging my learnings and experience.

Experience

Engineering Manager (Staff Engineer)

OKX Group (Crypto Exchange) • Hong Kong

Aug 2023 - May 2024

Built high-frequency trading Distributed OMS (handling 10M+ orders/day) and order book, reducing latency by 40% using Aeron, Java, Go-Lang, SBE and Raft Algorithm
Developed algo-trading strategies (DCA, Grid, Copy Trading, MACD)
Led 10-members to launch Options Trading with risk matrices (delta/gamma/Vega) and compliance-ready APIs (KYC/AML)
Drove OKX global entity launches (AU/UK/SG/US), improved geo-specific margin-trading compliance
Enhanced API stability (99.999% uptime) and map-cache performance, cutting response time by 25% under load
Reduced server cost by 20% by log optimizations and reduced critical cache memory from 4.8 GB to 300 MB
Singlehandedly developed KYC upgrade flow in 2 weeks forcing 1.4 million users to upgrade

Vice President

Morgan Stanley • Hong Kong

Feb 2022 - Jul 2023

Revamped Payment Notification System, automating 80% of corporate action payments workflows
Modularized STP trade settlement, pricing, reporting systems designed and developed APIs in Java & Go-lang
Led 6 + 9-member cross-functional teams, reduced manual effort by 25% via task automation & efficient code reviews
Owned support for STP, resolving 95% of critical issues within SLA
Worked on equity derivatives CFDs, options and futures

Java Software Engineer

Block.one (Bullish) • Hong Kong

Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

Delivered Notification Service (persistence/history/purge), reducing user query time by 50% via Elasticsearch optimization
Developed gRPC/Aeron-based OMS and Go-Lang based custody APIs for SWIFT and BitGo integration
Developed Crypto Custody solution interacting with public blockchains for crypto assets management
Designed and developed trade APIs to Place/cancel single and bulk orders
Worked on CI and CD Pipelines to deploy microservices on GCP

Solution Analyst

Cathay Pacific Airways • Hong Kong

Nov 2017 - Oct 2020

Designed MQ-based baggage message processing for 10M+ daily records, cutting query latency from 5min to 0.01s
Developed app to autonomously book flight for missing baggage in bulk, reduced human efforts by 90%
Pioneered AWS/Kubernetes migration for API Factory, standardizing 50+ OpenAPIs with JWT/OAuth2 security
Created Job Schedulers for reports and drafted technical specifications

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

Vantage Info Solutions • Remote

Aug 2013 - Nov 2017

Worked on creating infra for CFD derivatives (Stock, commodities and forex) trading
Designed and developed trading infrastructure for Capital markets
Developed CAS system for customer acquisition and Document verification
Worked on Asset management and custodian platform for forex stocks and bonds custody
Developed Lending management services module for loans with variable repayment options

Domain Expertise

High Frequency TradingAlgo TradingSPOT TradingOptions TradingFutures TradingOrder Management SystemMatching EngineKYC/AMLEquity SwapsDerivativesPost Trade Settlement

Technical Skills

languages

Java 21Go-LangTypeScriptPythonSolidity

frameworks

Spring BootMicronautGinKratosNode.jsEVM

systems

Distributed SystemsOMSHFTAlgo TradingOrder BookLow-LatencyZero GC

databases

PostgreSQLMySQLRedisMongoDBDynamoDBInfluxDBRocksDB

cloud

AWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CD

messaging

AeronKafkaRabbitMQActiveMQ

Education

B.Tech Electronics & Communication

GGS IPU, New Delhi • 2013

Leadership

6+ years of team management
Led 21-member global team
Cross-functional team leadership
Agile collaboration & mentoring