Piyush Kumar

Co-Founder

Delhi, India8 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a $10 million Market Neutral Trading Desk.
Developed high frequency trading infrastructure.
Co-founded a blockchain marketplace for digital assets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in algorithmic trading and distributed systems.

Contact

318piyushkumar@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Algorithmic TradingData AnalysisDistributed SystemsWeb Development

Other Skills

Automated TradingBlockchainC++Creative WritingDigital ElectronicsDjangoDockerFlaskJavaKubernetesLeading Development TeamsMachine LearningMongoDBMySQLNode.js

About

With a Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, my journey in the tech landscape has been invigorating, culminating in my role as a Lead Software Development Engineer at Mudrex. Here, I have honed my competencies in leading development teams. My tenure at Mudrex has been marked by pioneering a Market Neutral Trading Desk, scaling it to a $10 million book.

Experience

Mudrex

Quantitative Researcher

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Built and mentored a team of 4 to develop high frequency, low latency trading infrastructure; managing complete order cycles across both CeFi, DeFi trading exchanges for live strategies.
Designed and developed a backtesting engine for running simulations of HFT strategies
Ideated and built data pipelines broadcasting data from strategy logs to multiple grafana dashboards for performance monitoring and risk management of strategies.
Led the Market Neutral Trading Desk (scaling from 0 to $10Mn book); researched, developed and traded a diverse portfolio of HFT/MFT strategies.

Leading Development TeamsBlockchainKubernetesDistributed SystemsMachine LearningC+++17

Mathisys advisors

Quantitative Researcher

Oct 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

High Frequency Desk : Researched and developed multiple market making strategies trading futures in Indian Markets, coupled with arbitrage between multiple expiries
Built analytical tools for evaluating strategy performance during trading; feeding analysed data back into the research infrastructure for quicker turnaround on strategy improvements.
Researched and developed multiple market-making strategies for trading futures in Indian markets, incorporating arbitrage between various expiries(Scaling from 0 to $5M/day volume)

Statistical ArbitrageTrading StrategiesAlgorithmic Trading

Paracosmic innovation studios

Co-Founder

Mar 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

A platform to provide blockchain developers a plug and play marketplace for p2p trading of digital assets.

Trexquant investment lp

Global Alpha Researcher

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Hartford

Involved in analysis of technical and fundamental data for trading statistical arbitrages in global equities.
As Global Alpha Researcher, responsible for developing strong risk adjusted investment portfolios using latest results from academia.

Works applications co., ltd.

Research Development Software Engineer

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Developed and deployed containerized applications with docker and kubernetes for distributed systems
Implemented application specific metrics using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring systems
Researched on autoscaling for distributed containerized applications for better performance
Improved distributed systems reliability by implementing custom auto rescheduler for kuberntes.
Developed tools went into production for their 100+ applications on distributed systems

DockerKubernetesDistributed Systems

Rural housing knowledge network

Software Developer

Dec 2015 – Feb 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Created APIs in Flask(Python) for the web interface of RHKN, under Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Implemented user verification system on registration. Responsible for front end development of the website.

FlaskPythonWeb Development