Someshwar Bupelli

Project: Sophis Risqu ́e - Structured Equity Derivatives Description: As part of HSBC’s expansion in China and Malaysia, aim is to implement end to end STP of Structured Products 1. Implemented STP between Front Office, Sophis Risqu ́e and Downstream systems for structured products reducing manual intervention 2. Worked as a Product Owner with a Development team of 12 members from Pune in executing the initiative by working closely with China, Malaysia and Hong Kong teams for end to end delivery

Project: Bloomberg TOMS - Alternative Investments Description: On-boarding new Algo trading engine to Bloomberg TOMS 1. Implementing post trade solutions for recently launched Algo trading fund on Bloomberg TOMS 2. Liaise between fund managers and developers and drive end-to-end delivery of Transactional cost analysis, collateral reports and trade surveillance reports

Project: Valkyrie – Independent Price Verification Description: Valkyrie is an in-house developed monthly price testing application used by Product Control – Valuations team to perform independent price verification 1. Worked as a product owner for on-boarding Commodities and Credit Derivatives (CDS) modules 2. Daily activities include stakeholder management, gathering requirements, writing functional specification document (FSD), product backlog management, prioritising the stories and designing solutions

Description: CitiQuote is an in-house developed RFQ,OMS application for Equity OTC derivatives where counterparties can send their trade requests via e-mail, FIX and web. CitiQuote also supports trade execution and auto-hedging 1. Gathered requirements from Singapore Sales and trading desk for on-boarding OTC products like Vanillas, Barriers, Accumulators/Decumulators on to CitiQuote 2. Create the product backlog, user stories, Acceptance criteria and prioritise the stories for sprint planning

Description: Web Skipper is an in-house developed web-based risk management application for FX OTC derivatives. Products like FX futures, swaps, vanillas, exotics and various trading strategies were implemented using FINCAD and Numerix as pricing libraries 1. End to end project was executed from India by gathering requirements from stakeholders from Tokyo. Project was implemented using waterfall methodology – As a BA, Wrote FSDs, workflow diagrams, screen navigation diagrams, use case diagrams etc.

Trading Soybean futures on CBOT 1. Worked as an intra-day trader, trading Soybeans futures on Chicago Board of trade. As a trader, decisions involving the positions to be taken in the market were on self-prudence and analysis 2. Analysis involves consideration of various fundamental factors (like political, economic etc.) and technical factors (moving averages, strength indices) a↵ecting the price of Soybeans and act quickly to keep pace with the market