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Varun Mahendra

CEO

New York, New York, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years in high performance computing.
  • Led mission-critical projects for financial institutions.
  • Expert in scalability and performance engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a focus on high-performance trading systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringScalabilityPerformance TestingVirtualizationDistributed ArchitectureApi DevelopmentNetwork Optimization

Other Skills

ArchitectureCPUClient Expectations ManagementCo-locationCustomer OnboardingDiskDistributed CachingElectronic TradingEquitiesExchange ConnectivityFIXGemfire EnterpriseGlobal Client ManagementHigh AvailabilityJUnit Test

About

Highly skilled technologist with more than 10 years of expertise in high performance computing, scalability, reliability, high availability and performance engineering. Driven multiple mission critical technical projects for various banks, hedge funds, dark pools with extremely stringent timelines. Overseen tactical product development with emphasis on time to market.

Experience

Redline trading solutions

Vice President of Managed Services

Jul 2014Present · 11 yrs 8 mos

  • Redline Trading Solutions designs and deploys ultra-low latency market data and order execution systems that enable our customers to excel in today’s equities, options, futures, and FX markets.
Production ManagementPerformance EngineeringReliability EngineeringElectronic TradingVirtualizationSecurity+18

Opnet technologies, inc.

Systems Modelling Engineer

Apr 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • OPNET Web Dashboards Scalability:
  • Designed a test suite and developed associated testing tools to benchmark scalability of the dashboards system as well as identify bottlenecks and suggest scalability performance improvements using Selenium, JUnit Test and Jenkins framework to run a series of tests
  • Simulates user experience for hundreds of users automatically by starting a different VM for each user and compiling performance numbers by collecting data from each of the VM including CPU, memory and network utilization of all the interesting processes and making results available to Senior Management and Developers in real-time to run comparison numbers for performance metrics across various builds and datasources.
  • Virtualization Performance Measurement:
  • Designed and developed benchmark parameters for virtualization done by VMware by conducting experiments to measure performance against CPU, Memory, Disk and Networking.
ScalabilityPerformance TestingVirtualizationSeleniumJUnit TestJenkins+4

Vmware

MTS Intern - Security and Networking Solutions

May 2010Aug 2010 · 3 mos

  • Prototyped a next generation distributed scaleout architecture for vShield Manager.
  • Implemented a message bus communication mechanism over VMCI (virtual sockets) using RabbitMQ, a powerful open source messaging system.
  • Prototyped a distributed caching mechanism using Gemfire Enterprise and integrated it with VMCI and message bus to build a highly scalable distributed fault tolerant system.
  • Developed an API to allow easy integration of third party applications with vShield Manager.
Distributed ArchitectureMessage Bus CommunicationRabbitMQDistributed CachingGemfire EnterpriseAPI Development

Cisco systems

Network Consulting Engineer

Jul 2007Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Proactive Network Risk Analysis and recommending Network Software strategies to top 10% of Cisco's customers based on their configuration as a part of Network Optimization Services.
Network Risk AnalysisNetwork OptimizationSoftware Strategies

Education

Columbia Engineering

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2010

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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