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I am Anil Naicker, a software engineer with 17 years of development experience, including 10 years in FinTech and 8 years in investment/trading. I have delivered mission-critical systems, built low-latency real-time components, and developed exchange connectivity and market surveillance feeds for multiple global exchanges. I left Finance IT to pursue investing, achieved my investing goals, and am now returning to the field, eager for new challenges and mentors while continuing to contribute across front-to-back office technology. I thrive on collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, delivering robust software solutions, and continuously expanding my technical and trading knowledge to stay ahead in fast-paced financial environments.…I am Anil Naicker, a software engineer with 17 years of development experience, including 10 years in FinTech and 8 years in investment/trading. I have delivered mission-critical systems, built low-latency real-time components, and developed exchange connectivity and market surveillance feeds for multiple global exchanges. I left Finance IT to pursue investing, achieved my investing goals, and am now returning to the field, eager for new challenges and mentors while continuing to contribute across front-to-back office technology. I thrive on collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, delivering robust software solutions, and continuously expanding my technical and trading knowledge to stay ahead in fast-paced financial environments.

Anil Naicker

Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, +7

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I am Anil Naicker, a software engineer with 17 years of development experience, including 10 years in FinTech and 8 years in investment/trading. I have delivered mission-critical systems, built low-latency real-time components, and developed exchange connectivity and market surveillance feeds for multiple global exchanges. I left Finance IT to pursue investing, achieved my investing goals, and am now returning to the field, eager for new challenges and mentors while continuing to contribute across front-to-back office technology. I thrive on collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, delivering robust software solutions, and continuously expanding my technical and trading knowledge to stay ahead in fast-paced financial environments.…I am Anil Naicker, a software engineer with 17 years of development experience, including 10 years in FinTech and 8 years in investment/trading. I have delivered mission-critical systems, built low-latency real-time components, and developed exchange connectivity and market surveillance feeds for multiple global exchanges. I left Finance IT to pursue investing, achieved my investing goals, and am now returning to the field, eager for new challenges and mentors while continuing to contribute across front-to-back office technology. I thrive on collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, delivering robust software solutions, and continuously expanding my technical and trading knowledge to stay ahead in fast-paced financial environments.

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I am Anil Naicker, a software engineer with 17 years of development experience, including 10 years in FinTech and 8 years in investment/trading. I have delivered mission-critical systems, built low-latency real-time components, and developed exchange connectivity and market surveillance feeds for multiple global exchanges. I left Finance IT to pursue investing, achieved my investing goals, and am now returning to the field, eager for new challenges and mentors while continuing to contribute across front-to-back office technology.

I thrive on collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, delivering robust software solutions, and continuously expanding my technical and trading knowledge to stay ahead in fast-paced financial environments.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Beginner

Beginner

Language

English

Fluent

Japanese

Intermediate

Hindi

Beginner

Work Experience

Director at Leopold Barnett

September 1, 2017 - Present

Manage private investment portfolio including residential property, CFDs (Commodities & Forex), Options (US Equities and ETFs); built in-house trading tools for instrument selection, pricing, and risk management; developed and executed trading strategies; asset evaluation and negotiations; led a team of specialists and advisers to improve property assets.

Technical Specialist – Exchange Connectivity at Nasdaq OMX

September 1, 2017 - October 15, 2025

Feed driver development for JPX, TOCOM, KSE, IDX, and ASX exchanges to support Nasdaq SMARTS Market Surveillance; second-line support; collaborated with Smarts Core, Omnet trading, and TOCOM onsite teams; proactively identified and fixed severity 1 issues in legacy feed drivers (thread races, memory leaks, data mapping, sequencing).

Software Engineer at Dius Computing

January 1, 2011 - October 15, 2025

On-site web development consultant for Westfield's online shopping portal; involved in BDD/TDD, Scrum, XP; built Ruby on Rails features; RESTful services; maintained test suites; Linux/Windows environments.

Software Engineer at IMC Pacific

September 1, 2009 - October 15, 2025

Exchange connectivity development for existing and new markets, front-office and mid-office applications; designed and implemented feed drivers for Bloomberg B-Pipe, Wombat, Orc, and native Exchange data sources; developed TDEX native order driver; second-line support and enhancements to ASX legacy drivers; Excel plugins/libraries for Orc trading platform.

Systems Engineer – Computer Vision Specialist at Patrick Systems and Technology (Patrick Corporation)

March 1, 2007 - October 15, 2025

R&D and implementation of automated vision systems for shipping container identification and processing; hardware interface development; machine learning (SVM) and computer vision tasks; collaboration with Hong Kong teams to support Quants/Traders in pricing models.

Lead Developer - Australia & New Zealand Web/Intranet Development Team Leader at Sun Microsystems

December 1, 2004 - October 15, 2025

Web/intranet development lead for ANZ; acted as business analyst and project manager; coordinated development across Solaris/Linux environments; Java, C, Oracle stack; managed server deployments and cross-team collaboration.