Shankar Parasuraman

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Boulevard

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

VP, Financial Platforms & Products

Justworks

Dec 2020 - May 2025 (4 years 6 months)

Fast-growing HR technology company providing payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR solutions for small businesses. Scaled the team from <40 to 200+ across engineering, product, and business operations to drive financial product innovation, reliability, and scalability — enabling >3X growth in payments volume, >2X customer base, and 3X revenue growth. Designed and scaled a financial ecosystem handling $30B+ in annual payments, achieving 99.999% reliability and ensuring security, timeliness, and compliance. Directed $7B+ in annual tax remittances, reporting, and audits, achieving 99.99% accuracy across 2,000+ jurisdictions. Expanded unemployment insurance product revenue contribution from ~15% to ~20% through strategic optimizations and se

Global Head of Technology

Quantitative Brokers

Apr 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 9 months)

Private equity-backed provider of high-performance trading algorithms for global futures, US Treasury, and options markets. Scaled a global team from <10 to 40+ engineers across the US, UK, and India to enhance technology and product offerings, contributing to 3X revenue growth, major customer acquisitions, and a successful acquisition by Deutsche Börse. Transformed and scaled the technology organization by implementing best practices, processes, and architectures to enhance efficiency, stability, and performance. Expanded QB’s market presence to 15+ global exchanges across 4 continents, introduced 4 new trading algorithms and 2 new asset classes (Swaps, Options-on-Futures). Led development of pre-trade, post-trade, and real-time analyti

VP of Engineering

Lucera Financial Infrastructures

May 2016 - Apr 2018 (2 years)

Specialists in low-latency algorithmic trading, global market connectivity, and smart order routing solutions. Led technology transformation and enabled growth by completely replacing a struggling legacy platform, successfully migrating, and retaining all existing customers, and rapidly expanding product capabilities to support more sophisticated and larger institutional customers. Delivered a brand-new, multi-asset class trading platform to significantly improve performance, throughput, and reliability. Achieved industry leading benchmarks, and reduced latency by over 90%. Developed CI/CD frameworks and streamlined agile development processes, increasing team efficiency and feature delivery speed. Partnered with sales to double number o

Lead Software Engineer

Bloomberg

Mar 2011 - May 2016 (5 years 3 months)

An electronic agency brokerage offering trading solutions and analytics for equities, futures, options, and foreign exchange. I was the team lead for the FX trading platform team Spearheaded and managed large-scale FX trading system re-architecture projects to increase throughput, reduce latency while achieving improved reliability, scalability, and recovery Architected and managed development of ultra-low latency, high availability generic framework for electronic trading based on shared memory bus architecture, TCP and PGM using C++ on Intel-Linux platform that supports multiple asset classes Planned and managed proximity hosting and porting of FX matching engine, smart router, and market data to new platform

SAP Analyst - Enterprise Architecture

Valero Energy Corporation

Jun 2010 - Mar 2011 (10 months)

Analyzed oil refinery unit health monitoring solutions, collaborated with stakeholders, prioritized requirements, established business cases and created functional specifications for process enhancements Developed intuitive interfaces to dynamically construct refinery unit KPI reports and dashboard using SAP Web Dynpro Java Adopted service oriented architecture patterns to create enterprise services for refinery systems integration using SAP PI middle-ware solution

Senior Software Engineer

BNY Mellon

Jun 2006 - Jul 2009 (3 years 2 months)

Coordinated and managed overall delivery of the project by monitoring time and quality of deliverables. Created effective schedules through close interaction with teams in USA and UK. Achieved high team performance and commitment Implemented web services enabled process for market rates/curves consolidation, validation and distribution using C#.NET. Participated actively in design reviews and adopted design/architectural patterns to maximize extensibility and reusability with minimum effort Architected, designed and developed middleware to interface financial trading systems using C++ and MQ Series that handles real-time trades on bonds, asset backed securities and IR Derivatives Analyzed cost-effectiveness of messaging solutions, availa

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