Rishank Karkera

Manager

Morgan Stanley•  January 2022 - July 2022

● Automated CI/CD process pipelines that eventually reduced production deployment time by 70-80% and human intervention for execution ● Collaborated with finance stakeholders on understanding business requirements to perform improvements in fee calculation process, increase accuracy and provide resolutions for data quality and miscellaneous issues ● Guided peers and clients as a SME in various business areas of the BC&E fee calculation project ● Engaged in recruitment and mentorship activities across the team and department and guided new joiners into the project

Senior Associate

Morgan Stanley•  June 2020 - January 2022

● Onboarded fee calculations for a wide spectrum of products such as Equity, Listed Derivatives, Fixed Income Derivatives & OTC ● Performed various hygiene tasks, and API enhancements and drove initiatives across areas such as plant scaling (vertical & horizontal), DevOps - testing and deployment, process optimization, monitoring & support ● Familiarized and took handovers/ownership of developing and supporting various component areas under the project for fulfilling the absence of departing squad members to avoid any kind of negative business impact ● Received the Super Department Level “Rookie” Award at IST Circle of Excellence Awards 2020. The “Rookie” Award is chosen from the nominated debut talents based on the exceptional contributions by a new joiner

Contingent

Morgan Stanley•  October 2018 - June 2020

● Maintained and devised solutions for an in-house Java based Brokerage and clearing fees calculation engine which helps to compute/reconcile the firm’s non-comp expenses thus providing the firm opportunity to save money ● Implemented complex fee schedules due to tariff changes influenced by market changes or monthly/quarterly agreements ● Designed an eye-catching dashboard using angular for summarizing application’s regression run analysis

Software Engineer

Xoriant Solutions•  July 2018 - June 2020

Contingent at Morgan Stanley

State University of New York at Binghamton

Information Systems, MS•  April 2022 - Present

Cumulative GPA: 3.912/4.00 Coursework: Software Project Management, Database Systems, Information Systems Security, Management of Systems, Python & Data Mining, Applied Data Mining, Tools for Data Science, Web Based Info Retrieval & Search

Xavier Institute of Engineering

Information Technology, BE•  August 2014 - May 2018

Cumulative GPA: 3.14/4.00 Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming Methodology, Software Engineering, Web Programming