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

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.

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Skills

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
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Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
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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.

Education

Bachelor of Software Engineering (1 st Class Honors) at University of Technology, Sydney
March 1, 1999 - November 1, 2004

Qualifications

C++ Programming Professional Certificate
August 1, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Programming with Python Professional Certificate
September 1, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Other, Real Estate & Construction