Saksham Tanwar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Achieved 60% performance improvement in trading application.
Developed collaborative tools for Jupyter notebooks.
Expert in Python and JavaScript for fintech applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Software Engineer with strong backend development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonJavascript

Other Skills

Back-End Web DevelopmentC (Programming Language)C++Data StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentGo (Programming Language)KafkaMongoDBMySQLNoSQLReactReduxSQL

Experience

Databricks

Software Engineer

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

D. e. shaw india private limited

2 roles

Senior Member Technical

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 · 9 mos

Worked as a Senior Software Engineer in a team responsible for developing infrastructure and applications used by traders and portfolio strategists in trading various financial instruments such as Futures, Forwards, and Swaps.
Major contributor to a Web‐Based Trading Application that enabled users to analyze their current portfolio, execute non‐electronic trades, and provided multiple other verticals to enhance the trading experience.
Some key achievements:
Optimized existing data pipelines, leveraging an in‐house parallel processing framework, resulting in a significant 50% performance improvement.
Optimized backend APIs using an in‐house HDF5‐based disk caching framework, resulting in a remarkable 60% performance enhancement for the trading application by caching computationally intensive statistics.
Languages and Frameworks: Python, JavaScript, React, Redux, MongoDB, Kafka, SQL

PythonJavaScriptReactReduxMongoDBKafka+1

Member Technical

Jun 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs

The d. e. shaw group

Summer Intern

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · India

Designed and implemented a custom Jupyter Lab extension specifically tailored for reviewing Jupyter notebooks. This extension enabled users to view and add review comments to individual cells within a notebook, facilitating collaborative feedback and discussion.
Developed a Python‐based web server that served an API for managing review comments. This API provided endpoints to add, edit, and delete review comments, enhancing the functionality and flexibility of the review process.
Languages and Frameworks: Python, JavaScript, React, SQLite

PythonJavaScriptReactSQLite

Iiit hyderabad

Research Intern

May 2019 – Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Conducted performance analysis of existing libraries for text segmentation for Indian language texts.
Explored the Tab Stop Algorithm for text segmentation and developed pre and post processing filters to enhance performance.