Hello, I'm
Nitesh Singh
10+ years building high-scale FinTech, Cloud-Native, and Distributed Systems at HSBC. Architecting low-latency trading platforms, multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure, and frontier AI & Blockchain products — delivering $1B+ in regulatory savings.
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name: "Nitesh Singh",
location: "Pune, India",
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yearsExp: 10,
transactions: "20M+ / day",
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};Experience
Mar 2026 — Present
Senior Associate Director (Principal IC) · HSBC
Building app.hsbc — a strategic Kubernetes-backed application hosting platform targeting 80% of bank-wide workloads. Leading standardization across 100+ applications. Driving the Agentic AI pilot for HSBC Technology India using OpenAI and Gemini models, including an internal LLM-powered document processing pipeline.
Apr 2025 — Mar 2026
Associate Director — Software Engineering · HSBC
Architected a mission-critical low-latency real-time pricing platform (Line Pricer) using the Atlas framework for sub-millisecond pricing of Bonds, IRS, CDS, and complex derivatives. Designed lightweight Java microservices with ProtoBuf serialization and SSE over GCP for high-availability market data delivery.
May 2023 — Apr 2025
Lead Consultant Specialist (Vice President) · HSBC
Global Delivery Lead for a high-throughput risk-bucketing system running 200+ rules over 20M+ daily transactions — zero production incidents over 3 years. Delivered $1B+ in structural capital savings (Basel IV, FRTB, CRR2). Built a live risk computation engine with sub-2s latency, saving $200K+/year on GCP. Spearheaded an in-house Kube-On-Prem platform managing 20+ clusters saving $500K+ annually. Built AutoOps certificate lifecycle tooling adopted by 100+ global teams.
Nov 2021 — May 2023
Senior Consultant Specialist — Fixed Income · HSBC
Principal Developer for Fixed Income Golden Team managing infrastructure handling 1M+ daily transactions and 60K API calls/hour. Appointed Lead of the Enterprise Engineer Alumni Chapter (India). Developed 30+ micro-applications and led high-profile Blockchain/AI proof-of-concepts.
Jul 2016 — Nov 2021
Consulting Specialist / Sr. Software Engineer · HSBC
Lead Developer for HSBC Digital Vault — a distributed ledger platform transitioning $20 Billion of asset records from paper to blockchain (Forbes Blockchain 50). Tech Lead for the CBDC cross-border interoperability project integrating HSBC with the Banque de France experimentation program.
Projects
Risk Bucket Store
High-throughput risk-weighting and bucketing system running 200+ configurable rules over 20M+ daily transactions. Delivered $1B+ in structural capital savings through automated Basel IV, FRTB (SA/IMA), CRR2, and BCBS compliance. Zero production incidents over 3 years.
app.hsbc — K8s Hosting Platform
Strategic internal Kubernetes-backed application hosting platform targeting 80% of bank-wide application workloads. Leading standardization across 100+ applications to minimize time-to-production while maintaining rigorous banking compliance.
Other noteworthy projects
CBDC Interoperability
Tech Lead for HSBC's cross-border CBDC design integrating with the Banque de France experimentation program. Cited in official Banque de France press releases.
Kube-On-Prem Engine
In-house Kubernetes hosting engine managing 20+ clusters and 100+ nodes using a Java backend and Go client — yielding $500K+ in annual licensing and operational savings.
AutoOps (Cert-as-Code)
Automated enterprise certificate management lifecycle tool adopted by 100+ global teams, securing 1,500+ active certificates and eliminating production expiry risks bank-wide.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI & Blockchain
Tools & Workflow
Contact
Let's connect.
I'm open to senior engineering leadership roles, advisory positions, and collaborative FinTech or AI opportunities. Whether you have a project in mind or just want to talk tech — my inbox is open.