Summary
Avtar Gill is an Application Development Senior Manager with 13 years of experience leading hands-on engineering teams and delivering robust software for financial capital markets. Based in Old Toronto, he specializes in Equities Front Office high-touch trading systems, alpha capture, stock buyback and fixed-income/debt origination workflows, with a strong focus on application performance and legacy decommissioning. At Citi he combines technical depth in Java (6–17) with systems engineering and project ownership across the full software lifecycle. Known for hiring and mentoring high-performing teams, he excels at translating complex trading requirements into reliable, production-grade applications under tight deadlines. Less obvious: he balances strategic leadership with day-to-day coding and performance tuning, which enables faster troubleshooting and smoother releases.
13 years of coding experience