Summary
Saji Venugopalan is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years driving low-latency, cloud-native microservice architectures and observability at Citi from Singapore. As VP and architect he authors an in-house no-code/low-code microservice platform supporting GRPC, TCP, WebSocket, JMS, REST and more, and leads migration of legacy trading systems to OpenShift using Spring Boot, RSocket and Chronicle. He combines hands-on development of single-thread, CPU-affine services and Chronicle-based queues with strategic responsibilities across CI/CD, TenantOps/DevOps/SecOps feedback, capacity planning and no-touch deployments. Known for modularizing reusable functional and non-functional components, he balances delivery leadership for global teams with deep performance engineering expertise in middle- and front-office financial systems. An uncommon strength is his focus on ultra-low-latency design patterns (Chronicle, Chronicle Map/Queue) applied at enterprise scale to financial trading and locate services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com Commerce, B.Com Commerce at University of Madras
MSc.IT Information Technology, MSc.IT Information Technology at Bharathidasan University
Kerala Vidyalayam Higher Secondary School
Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi