Dear Hiring Manager,

I am excited to apply for the position of Technology Leader at [company name]. With more than 15
years of diverse experience in Investment Banking and IT management, I have developed and
implemented real-time, mission-critical trading applications with low latency and high availability
using .NET technologies, messaging infrastructure, and databases. My expertise includes delivering
complex solutions in the Front Office Technology, Trade & Exposure Monitoring Tools, Client
Management Tools, Operational Risk Tracking Systems, Document and Data Management, Production
support & infrastructure management, DevOps culture with CI/CD pipelines, and focus on reducing infra
costs.

Currently working as Vice President at Credit Suisse, Global Markets technology team, I am leading
various projects within eTrading Flow Management with end-to-end accountability. I have extensive
hands-on agile technology delivery and strong domain expertise in the Global Markets space, with a
focus on delivering complex solutions. I have also gained experience in senior stakeholder management,
Analytics and Intelligence, and Agile Practices.

My technical skills include programming languages such as C#.NET, REACT, WinForms, Microservices,
ASP.NET core Web API, WCF, PL/SQL, and Perl. I am proficient in Middleware Technologies like Kafka,
ActiveMQ, 60 EAST AMPS (Advanced Message Processing System), TIBCO EMS, and 29West LBM. I have
also worked with other tools and technologies such as Splunk, Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, OpenFin,
TeamCity, Octopus, GitHub, and Postman.

I hold a Master's of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and a
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from VJTI, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.

At Credit Suisse, Raleigh, NC, I have been the Global delivery lead for a suite of Algo Trading Flow
Management Tools supporting Advanced Executions Services (AES) desk. I am responsible for
technology delivery catering to various asset classes, including Equities, Listed Derivatives, and FX, with
more than 150 users across the globe. Some of my accomplishments include:

Developing a suite of low latency, highly performant, and complex global applications that provide near
real-time flow and exposure monitoring capabilities and order amendment capabilities to more than
400k algo trades per day for each region.

Integrating OpenFin unified workspace across applications to increase trader productivity and improve
user experience.

Migrating new flow over to Advanced Message Processing System (AMPS) middleware technology.
Designing a unified user configuration management framework and integrating it across a suite of
applications.

Architecting a framework for user actionable alerts like Trader of Last Resort (ToLR), locate shares, and
suspended order alerts.

In my previous positions, I have also gained experience in mentoring teams of developers, implementing
real-time systems to view and manage complex orders for sales traders, building a front-end application
to view real-time risk parameters for commodities trading desk, and designing and developing an in-
house books and records keeping system.

I would welcome the opportunity to bring my expertise to [company name] and contribute to the
growth of the organization. Thank you for considering my application.

Sincerely,

Alok Ashok Dhanapune