May 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Joined the Treasury Tech team as the sole individual contributor, and progressed to a tech lead manager (TLM) role as the team expanded.
• As a tech lead, was responsible for setting up core business processes and onboarding the new members of the team. Mentored junior developers, and managed a team of five individuals across 2.5 years.
• Adapted to the business domain, while also contributing to the infrastructure setup.
• Co-ordinated with stakeholders to ensure timely deliverables, monthly release plans and retrospection.
• Key contributions:
• Business projects:
• Played a critical role in optimizing the margin simulation infrastructure project, powered by an internal Dask based distributed computing framework.
• Led multi-month projects on business-critical margin calculators for energy & equities portfolios
• Managed the Spend reporting tools & sourcing data for the same.
• Infrastructure projects
• Led an initiative to integrate Rust in the context of Python extensions for optimal performance (30% improvement over python performance)
• Pioneered a ZMQ setup for integrating a Java Library with python-based computing infrastructure to facilitate low-overhead cross-language interop. This idea borrowed from the architecture of Jupyter (OSS contributions linked below).

Aug 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Worked in the frontend team to build reusable components used across the firm. Collaborated on troubleshooting issues with multiple teams.
• Utilized React/Redux for building a frontend for firmwide internal workflows management application.
• Collaboration with Risk Team:
• Worked on modernization of complex legacy projects like the Risk Commitee Report
• Designed an authorization framework to enable a unified multi-level granular access to the Web Portal.
• Redesigned the portal for correlation stats using React.
• Overhauled performance critical backend code and introduced vectorization leading to 7-8x performance improvement for cross portfolio correlation logic
• Re-architected the infrastructure which empowered users to personalize complex dashboards, through persisted sessions. This change improved modularity and interoperability with other infrastructure components.

Jul 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Collaborated with teams in India and US on building solutions for interactive experimentation using Jupyter services and toolchain.
• Worked on dynamic data visualization and reporting components adopted by several teams. * Adopted techniques like virtual rendering and modern web technologies to support presenting large datasets in browser.
• Contributed to the open source jupyter notebook ecosystem for use-cases which benefited the company - https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/4455bcfc8f199e5b971aa40 d2580c33a403c15c2
• Played crucial role in adoption of Jupyterlab and improved notebook integration workflows, through OSS contributions to Jupyterlab. Worked on extensions to drive user adoption, some of which were open sourced by the company. Eg. https://github.com/deshaw/jupyterlab-pyflyby
• Developed a new reporting framework from scratch supporting rendering contexts like web, static html, email and notebook. Built upon the foundation of cutting edge modern web technologies, this solution replaced multiple legacy technologies and was adopted as the de facto reporting solution across the firm.
• Helped develop optimized chart visualizations solutions powered by Highcharts, accompanied by python integrations
• Open Source Work: Contributed to the following repositories as "Madhu94" ● Jupyter Notebook ● NBFormat ● Jupyterlab ● Dask

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area