Hardik Gohel

Fintech Product Support · Cloud & DevOps

Hardik Gohel

14+ years supporting trading platforms and cloud infrastructure — currently on Liquidnet's UK Fixed Income desk, trained on-site in London. Certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS Solutions Architect.

About

I work at the point where financial trading systems meet cloud infrastructure. Day to day that means keeping the Liquidnet UK Fixed Income platform running — production support, incident response, and being the bridge between front-office traders and the engineering side. Alongside that, I design and run the cloud infrastructure underneath: AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, and the automation that keeps deployments repeatable.

Experience

Team Lead / Product Support Engineer — QTech

Sept 2022 – Present

Client: Liquidnet — Ahmedabad, India / London, UK

  • L1/L2 production support for the Liquidnet UK Fixed Income trading platform; trained on-site in London on Fixed Income Analytics and Trading Platforms.
  • Bridge between front-office traders, custodians, and back-office teams on trade lifecycle issues; support client onboarding.
  • Own AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS) and Azure (AKS, VNet) infrastructure — provisioning, security hardening, and Kubernetes/Docker/Helm lifecycle management.
  • Automate deployments with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab; monitor stability via ITRS, Lens, CloudWatch, Grafana.
  • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews in JIRA/Salesforce, with a focus on strict SLA compliance and zero-trust security.

IT Engineer — Anblicks Inc

May 2021 – Aug 2022

Ahmedabad, India

  • L1/L2 technical support, incident management, and system monitoring across Linux and Windows infrastructure.
  • Patching, backup validation, and user access management, coordinating across teams to hit SLA targets.

Senior System Engineer — Dainik Bhaskar Group

Oct 2018 – May 2021

Greater Ahmedabad Area

  • Managed enterprise IT infrastructure, servers, and networking, including VDI environment and print server administration.
  • Basic AWS administration, SAP support, and user training alongside day-to-day infrastructure operations.

Earlier roles

Desktop Engineer — Petronet LNG LimitedJul 2017 – Sept 2018
Hardware Server Network Engineer — Concorde PeripheralsJan 2016 – Jun 2017
IT Infrastructure Engineer — AVR Vikram ValvesApr 2014 – Dec 2016

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS) Azure (AKS, VNet) Terraform Ansible
Containers & CI/CD
Kubernetes (CKA) Docker Helm Rancher Jenkins GitLab
Trading & Financial Systems
FIX Protocol Trade Lifecycle Touchpoint FI
Monitoring & Ops
ITRS / Geneos Grafana Zenoss JIRA Salesforce

Credentials

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • MCSA: Windows Server 2012
  • Kubernetes Lab for Beginners — Udemy

Education & Languages

  • B.A., Sociology — Saurashtra University
  • English, Hindi, Gujarati