Deepak Sarda

Business Impact

• Scaled the platform to support AUA hyper growth from ~S$0.5B to ~S$8B in four years, alongside similar hyper growth in clients and transaction volumes.
• Led Hong Kong market entry and B2B expansion by driving multi-tenant architecture, the Advisor Portal, internationalization, localization, multi-site readiness, granular RBAC, and more.
• Ran a predictable operating cadence with quarterly roadmaps and monthly engineering metrics that tied engineering work to commercial targets.

People & Orgs

• Grew engineering from ~30 to ~70 and evolved the org from skills teams to cross-functional domain squads; designed and rolled out the Engineering Career Framework and promotion process.
• Established the Endowus India engineering office (Hyderabad) as a captive development center, covering entity setup, office space, hiring and onboarding, IT operations, and location leadership.
• Strengthened the tech leadership bench and hiring brand through role specific structured interview loops, career development coaching, public talks, and the Endowus tech blog.

Generative AI

• Lead the design, development & strategy of WealthWise AI, the in-house platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and monitoring GenAI solutions, including RAG, secure tool use, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and observability.
• Launched the CX bot on web and WhatsApp with ~35% automated resolution, reducing escalations and improving support throughput.
• Ran the Year of AI program to make daily AI use a habit across the company and set the vision for an AI-powered digital wealth advisor.

Platform Stability, Security, and Spend

• Executed a zero-downtime migration from GCP to AWS and continued platform hardening for scale and resilience.
• Conceived and sponsored Dynamic Environments plus continuous regression testing: on-demand, production-like infra environments that removed shared-environment QA bottlenecks.
• Drove unit-economics improvements and cost discipline with a frugal-infrastructure program, achieving >50% lower infrastructure cost per registered customer and ~70% lower cost per 1k AUA, plus six-figure vendor savings through renegotiations and credits.

Governance & Controls

• Oversaw external technology reviews and diligence, including MAS TRM-related audits, SFC technology due diligence for license grant, and technology due diligence by investors during fund-raising.
• Workplace Technology owner: designed and operate end-to-end joiner-mover-leaver processes, identity and access management, endpoint and MDM controls, DLP and data governance, and the core SaaS stack for email, calendar, and collaboration, supporting the workplace technology needs of employees across SG, HK, Malaysia, and India.
• Formalised vendor governance and software lifecycle controls covering due-diligence, contracts and licensing, vulnerability and dependency management, improving resilience and reducing exposure.

Key Highlights

• Built a 25+ person engineering team from scratch, organized into cross-functional squads delivering high-impact products with agile practices.
• Directed vision, delivery, operations, and risk for Observability Fabric, Chaos framework, Canary synthetics, SSO brokers, Audit & Financial Advisors, MariaDB web console, and Go, the firm’s link shortening & discovery service.
• Influenced firm-wide initiatives on Identity, Service Mesh, and Telemetry as a member of the Architecture Board.
• Presented regularly to CIOs, GTOC members, and clients on cloud strategy, observability, microservices, and chaos engineering.
• Championed CI/CD practices and seeded a culture of shared improvement through internal open source development.
• Filed four patents, trained engineers, and led recruitment through conferences and universities.
• In the SCPP team, delivered a contractual settlement engine, a realtime datamart (40M stock positions, 15M cash, 15M trades in <5 minutes), and a middle-office GUI for settlement monitoring & operations.

Key Highlights

• On-boarded the Program Trading desk onto two new exchanges, collaborating with desk traders and the market connectivity teams.
• Built a FIX to Proprietary messaging adapter that allowed 70MM$ notional daily order flow to be routed to smaller markets and also serve as a failover route to the larger markets.
• Migrated dozens of Java services and Perl/Shell scripts from Solaris to Linux yielding infra cost savings of $90K/year.
• Spearheaded the Development Maturity Model, a development efficiency improvement program within Global Equities. Raised team's score by 54%.

• Managed core product development leading a team of two developers.
• Instituted processes for bug tracking, version control and release management.
• Single-handedly managed product deployments at multiple sites.
• Conducted developer training workshops & technical sales presentations in Japan, USA and Malaysia.

• Implemented the Realtime CORBA specification for realtime response requirements in VisiBroker 7.0
• Transitioned development and support for the VisiBroker-RT product from US to Singapore.
• Setup a realtime systems development lab in Singapore for testing on VxWorks and Montavista platforms.

• Member of the Information Science Research group.
• Worked as an intern while pursuing Masters degree and subsequently joined as a full time Research Associate after graduation.
• Designed a new machine learning based algorithm for the computational prediction of subcellular localization of proteins.
• Implemented a cluster-backed parallel implementation of the above algorithm, along with a web based query interface.